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The Joy of Revision
It’s truly amazing how individual everyone’s writing process is. Some people swear by Heinlein’s famous rules of writing, including #3, “You must refrain from rewriting, except to editorial order.”...
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It Doesn’t Get Easier. It Gets Better.
I didn’t post last week because I am a bad, bad writer. I am currently hip deep in revisions for Infidel, book 2 in my God’s War trilogy. I am also simultaneously writing book 3 and marketing book 1....
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Process
Writing is in the re-writing, I was once told. I happen to believe it’s true. The first pass is for me to get my thoughts onto the page. No one sees that version, not even my husband. The second draft...
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Just get the clay on the table
Just get the clay on the table. That’s one of my favorite writing phrases. Git ‘er done, and then at least you’ve got something to work with. In other words, you can start revising, making it better....
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Completely rewriting a book as we speak
Right now, I am avoiding working on a massive rewrite of the latest project I’ve got going, a story for an iPhone app. The one I very confidently told the guys I’d have ready for them in July. And if...
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Dross
Revising and rewriting your work is the smelt that allows you to slough off the dross. What you’re left with is pure, gleaming and sparkly metal. And that’s about all I have to say about that...
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The One Where Thomas Repeatedly Uses the F-Word
When it comes to writing, “Feedback,” of course, is the real F-word — an obscenity so strong that even Lenny Bruce was scared to utter it. I’ll get to that in a minute, but I’ve got a few things to...
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