An interesting thought visited me as I sat around procrastinating today. Are stories that get picked up quickly by agents/publishers cheated out...
I’m at that stage where I’m revision my novel. I did all the reviewing, know what I have to tackle and most of it will be revised in a big way...
It's crazy to add up all the hours that go into my short story revisions. And every time I go back to a story, I always see changes to make even...
I've been working on some poems for quite some time, but I just can't seem to get them to the point where I feel they're ready to submit to...
I finished my first round of revision for my manuscript. It took about a week. Is it possible that that's as much revision as I can do at the...
Anyone have any suggestions on how to take revisions one page at a time? I'll admit, I've been in a hurry and I had hoped to sprint through the...
I realize that often I have written prose with neither meaning nor clarity, because I have tried to write it with cadence before completing its...
It looks like all the members of the new writers' group we're starting in a couple of weeks are in a similar position: we all have first novels...
Now that I've completed the big revision of my 30 year old first novel, I can get back to my second novel that I put on hold last April. But now...
In the process of revising my old romance-thriller novella I've completed the re-write to a little past the point where my protagonists confess...
I am at the messy nearly-end of my first draft and as I am revising the beginning, [for the 23rd time], I am seeing stuff that I need to put in...
Today I have started the revision process of my novel. It has been three months since I last worked with it and I find that this time away from it...
I've been using TTS (Text-to-speech) software recently to have the computer read back my material to me. I find it works quite well to catch...
I am new to navigating forums, so please forgive me if my suggestion is not relevant. Or if there is some easier way to address my issue please...
For along while I've wanted to create my own sort of scifi/supernatura/adventure series and that's where my focus as been. I did some research in...
I shot my mouth off about this subject a couple weeks ago in another thread about something else, and now that I've calmed down I'm not so sure of...
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