Last night was our first critique session. The set up for the group is submissions due by the 1st of every month with the critiques themselves on the third Thursday. This was it. We were either going to get it right or fumble along and waste everyone’s time.
Nervous? Yeah, of course [...]
Posts Tagged ‘editing’
18 Sep
Cheese? Let’s Never Fight Again.
22 Jan
That Was Close
I’m really glad that I decided to give my short story a close inspection before submitting it. I almost did last night, changing a word here and there while my eyes glazed over, but set it aside for today to make sure. I printed out a copy, sat down stairs, and starting going over it.
I [...]
17 Oct
Formatting Fiend
Tonight it’s an early night – after frantic running around after work, having both friends and a headache over, I’ve left Todd to play host and have retreated to the bedroom to play with the blog and watch episodes of the Muppet Show (televisionary stuff).
The cave worked. I wrote about 250 words today, and that [...]
30 Sep
What an aweful week . . .
I don’t think I’ve had a more miserable week. Between losing my purse thanks to the car break in, running around to get all of my lost identification replaced, and having a cranky call from my ex-boss, it’s been one of those weeks where I want to crawl into a hole and either cry or sleep as the [...]
22 Sep
Yesterday’s Work
Still working on The Butcher.
I’ve decided to change up the vampiric ‘tells’ that were part of the first version of the story, discarding media ones and going for the more obscrure historical slavic/ukrainian legends. I will move a scene around and I’ve changed the local where the big event happens – originally I had in [...]
20 Sep
Today’s Work
Well, I did another critique, this time of a very weird, very rough draft of a fantasy short story. It felt thin, under-described to the point that in many instances I got a little lost trying to figure out who everyone was, what they were doing, and why. It read like a stream-of-conscious glut onto the page, that the author [...]
6 Mar
Posted at Forward Motion
They are a great bunch over at Forward Motion. I hope someone can give me some advice and quick, before my head explodes.
First Draft Done – now, revise? chuck?
I’m having a crisis here.
I’ve finished my first draft of my first novel. I began it during NaNoWriMo and finished it over December and January.
Since then I’ve [...]
28 Feb
Long Editing Slog
Edited another Chapter. Basically been ill ever since, so tired, a little nauseous, jittery. Laid down for a while, as successful as that can be with a 40 pound dog pawing at you scratch her muzzle and the purr machine that lives on you at night making it impossible to sleep in the [...]
27 Feb
Little Bitsies
Edited one chapter, even finding one scene that I really, really liked.
This morning was spend on errands. Bloodwork first, which will necessitate a call to my Doctor to see if he will adjust my thyroid down based on the results. It feels like he’s going to have to – I’ve not been sleeping, my headaches [...]
