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...
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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