Category Archives: Revising
Write, rewrite, revise and repeat
I’m in the home stretch of going through and either accepting or ignoring my critique partner’s suggestions.
Revisions Or Make Me Beautiful…
The pages before me are nothing spectacular or eye catching, the basic form of the story, a rough draft. A few pretty features mingled with the unsightly, overall its average at best.
Learning to Revise
In my attempts to come up with my February blog idea I searched saved files, old notebooks, idea boxes filled with clippings and articles. It came to me as I sat in the pedicure chair bouncing ideas back and forth with my daughter in the chair next to me. I have been revising my story for what [...]
Nano is about more than just words
Since many of my writing mates wrote about Nano, I’m going to get in on the action, too. But from a different perspective. I’m going to write about the unexpected things I got from Nano. Hint: it wasn’t 50,000 words. Not this year. The first thing I got was the knowledge that I have [...]
Don’t look back…keep writing!
Like a slasher in a horror flick, they’ll rip your story to shreds. Deep down you know forward is the only direction, but like the token blond in the three inch heels you trip.