Tag: rewriting


  • So here I am. ๐Ÿ™‚ The busy season has passed. At least until it arrives again (which for me will be January). This year (in my new department) hasn’t been even half as bad as the two previous where I was expected to work 14-hour days with weekends and basically go balls to the wall…

  • Sorry I haven’t been posting much lately. You know how they always say publishing is slow during the summer? Yeah, not so much if you work in production. I am currently the busiest I’ll be all year (most likely) and while I’m not as crushed as I was in my old department, I am merrily…

  • It’s hard to keep track of topics when you’re on a variety of soap boxes. I’ve written in two different live journals, hosted a podcast, and now how this blog/journal. Sometimes you think you’ve written about a topic when you haven’t. Or, you think you’ve written about it in one place when really it was…

  • The Red Pen

    Your pardon at the quality of the pictures, but I took those with my phone which does not have the best camera. They get the point across, though. I received feedback from an agent awhile back, feedback I was uncertain about. I never rush right into feedback assuming that a person is right or wrong.…

  • Rewriting is me writing.

  • I received feedback on one of my manuscripts from an author. She said the pacing at the beginning was too slow. It had been an issue during earlier drafts and I had thought I had resolved it to my satisfaction. I do not immediately agree with feedback from an agent and I don’t believe you…

  • When was the last time I wrote something original? I’m trying to remember and quite frankly, I can’t. I edited the TRIAD SOCIETY then I revised JEHOVAH’S HITLIST then I started rewriting WANTED: CHOSEN ONE and now I’m doing yet another pass on JEHOVAH’S HITLIST. Somewhere in there I wrote six chapters of THE 7TH…

  • Rewriting is HARD!

    I revise. I rarely rewrite. In fact, the only thing I’ve tried to rewrite is 7TH SACRIFICE and I scrapped the entire incomplete manuscript, so that should almost be called writing, as there isn’t much “re” involved. Coming on a year ago, I finished the manuscript for WANTED: CHOSEN ONE, NOW HIRING. I got feedback…

  • Holy Balls!

    I have been pondering it for months and I finally made a decision. An agent gave me feedback on WANTED: CHOSEN ONE, NOW HIRING. He wanted Bastin to be the main character rather than Nashau. I’ve discussed that here before. Bastin is clearly the most likable, charismatic of the group, but the story was Nashau’s…

  • I wrote chapter 2 for 7Sac today. This is a big deal because it’s the first fully original chapter of this version. Pieces of chapter 1 got held over from my first attempt and much more of it came from the wind sprint I wrote. Chapter 2 was wholly fresh. I actually tried to write…