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Write, rewrite, revise and repeat

I’m in the home stretch of going through and either accepting or ignoring my critique partner’s suggestions.

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

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.

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

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 [...]

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

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 [...]

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

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.

Saturday, October 25th, 2008