Posts tagged novel
2021 Update: Draft three, the creek of ideas and development

A Better Crown now has several very diligent and very enthusiastic beta readers rifling through it. With their feedback, and another round of editing on my part; the third, and hopefully, final draft is well underway. Earthguard is in place, the plotline is rigid, the characters are set. A few edges need to be softened and a few corners rounded, but then it should all be done.

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Editing your WIP: Making it look like you knew what you were doing all along

I’ve just kept one piece advice in my head, one mantra that I fixate on and has become the focal point of my editing. It’s something I heard Neil Gaiman say about editing: “the second draft is about making it look like you knew what you were doing all along.” It’s those few words that are getting me through right now.

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A welcome, dreams into short stories and finishing your damn book

I hope you can come to enjoy something on this and if you don’t, well, I still really appreciate you dropping by. I do. Being willing to explore someone’s art is one of the best things you can ever do, because, even if you hate it, you bothered to find out if you hated it or not. It’s a valuable thing to do.

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