...in which you're paying someone to impose deadlines on you...and that's fine. Like I said, I am NOT suggesting that Vexxx skip the class. I...
Vexx, Let me just offer you my experience and you can take from it what you will. For years I had cultivated an identity as a writer, both to...
Tesoro and Kay, Some great suggestions in there. I actually began doing what Kay suggested and moved bits of text into smaller and more focused...
all good points. Thanks for the replies. off to work.
it's funny elg, that method of chucking the first draft and writing it again from scratch scares me. Not precisely sure why. Maybe that's why I...
thanks for the replies. Funkybass: the word document is something that I've done to pull certain bits out. But I think a cut of the trash is in...
a couple of years I began a daily freewriting practice that ended up leaving me with about 300+ typewritten pages. The only conceit I imposed on...
Elgaisma, Thanks for the reply. Fortunately, my first reader and I came out of the same writing program and have edited each others work before....
I'm wondering what people's experiences are with having a dedicated first reader. I would be reading/editing his work and he would be doing the...
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