Yesterday I talked a little about how I’m approaching this revision process, the tweaks I’m making. I woke up this morning with a really bad sore throat–red, swollen, and hurts to swallow. It’s my only symptom, besides feeling like crap. But as I had most of this post finished anyway I thought I’d post it.
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I spent several hours today coming up with the start of my rewrite plan. However, it wasn’t until I started writing this LJ post that I realized I had only focused on the “what” of the rewrite — which in many ways is the easy part. “Rewrite better” isn’t an achievable goal. There’s no way
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I finished Harp of Fire this morning, the third novel in this trilogy. Or at least the handwritten part. w00t!!! The current draft of chapter 17 is approximately 4800 words, but I also realized that I forgot to include something important in the middle of the chapter, and that will absolutely push it to over
Ah — novel land. I went to bed thinking about the novel last night. I woke up thinking about it. It has consumed me quickly this time, no faffing about, will I, won’t I fall into complete, utter obsession. Nope, just dove right in. I think I have the whole novel plotted out. It feels
At one point, I remember, I used to really like rewriting. I enjoyed that wordsmithing act, finding just exactly the right word, the right phrase or metaphor or simile, and polishing the text. I lost some of that, quite frankly, it’s been missing for a couple of years now. The important thing though is that
A writer writes. That’s how I’ve generally defined being a writer, and why I generally feel good about myself as a writer. However, not a lot of writing went on this week. Let’s just say that emotionally and physically it was a really rough week for me, and leave it at that. The writing that