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Editing

  • Revision Roadmap

    Because just putting your idea on paper isn’t enough. Rewriting is a necessity for any book. http://madwomanintheforest.com/wfmad-day-18-revision-roadmap/ Some things I especially like in her post: Keeping track of times/dates. It’s easy to lose track of this when you’re writing, but makes an enormous difference to any reader. Mark locations. If half your book happens in…

  • In the mood for camping

    I must be crazy, right? I mean, someone with two books in the writing stage shouldn’t plan to start an entirely new book. These things simply aren’t done. Well… Go ahead and call me crazy, I guess. I did give myself an ultimatum though. I must have my first book, Suzie’s Nightmare, completely edited and…

  • Edits, NaNo, and New Orleans

    So some good news – I finally finished editing Pikes Peak yesterday! Woo-hoo! It got steadily more difficult toward the end there, and I wasn’t sure if I was going to be able to finish it this weekend or not. I’m still not 100% happy with some of the dialogue, and I may have a…

  • Fall is Coming

    So this is not normally how I bring in the fall season, getting felled by some weird stomach bug, but sometimes you can’t prepare for things like this. Sometimes life has other plans for how to appreciate the chillier mornings. Last week I ended up working from home most of the time which made me…

  • Two Down, One to Go

    Woot! I finished my edits for both of my Big Bang fanfiction pieces! *Happy Dance* I still have a whole novel to finish revising and editing, but to celebrate getting these two done I’ll be using a piece from My Life as a Dead Man: Regulus Black, Post-Mortem for my Six Sentence Sunday choice. I…