Why is revision so much more consuming than writing the first time? Or first few times. Whenever I get notes for a ms that set off sparks for me, I am just swallowed up by the revision process—I eat, breathe and sleep it.
But I thought I’d pop in here on LJ and list a few [...]
Archive for April, 2007
Revision Bones
Posted in Writing on April 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Ahem
Posted in Writing on April 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
You PORE over your pages during revision. You’ve been poring and poring over them. Not pour. You are not pouring over my LJ. Although if you want to be pouring me a cold Dos Equis, mmmm!
And throes, NOT throws. You are in the throes of passion. Not the throws of it. Although that does give [...]
Tess Gerritsen on writing
Posted in Writing on April 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In case you don’t have her on your blogroll, she recently posted some great notes about her process:
Hither
and thither.
Here’s why, AMP
Posted in Friends on April 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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Today I accomplished the following
1) Intentionally did not use my daughter’s preschool time to write, because I’ve got some fulls out there, plus one of the agents said she’d get back to me this week. So I knew I wouldn’t be able to resist checking my email every minute [...]
