Tag: editing
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What Is Good?
I did it. I finished another project, announcing the other day that I moved another story into the bin of yet-to-be-edited projects that I have been amassing these last two years. It is always a good feeling when I put that final pen stroke (or technically that final key stroke) onto the page of any…
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Ideal
I sometimes confuse my ideals with the reality of living. They cloud my judgement often as I look for some way to paint the world with colors of betterment for all mankind. Until life shows me that I am a fool. Ideals are the targets. Like perfection, they are never to be achieved, as perfection…
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Into Review
Whelp, it happened. I’ve added #7 to my list of projects in the review stages. This week I moved “The Plagued Life of Agnes Pyle” (Agnes Pyle book 2) into the review stage. I am going to let it sit for a few weeks while I focus on 2 of the other projects before I…
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And Then There Were Two…
The task of rewriting Of Earth and Ice, the monster 171,000 word draft I had finished writing last year, has begun. More or less, the writing itself is slower in progress than that of the new outline. Frankly, I didn’t take the story where I wanted to take it. Now, in the revision, I can…
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Five Projects
Five is really too many. I have five projects that need to be edited, revised, beta-read, and then revised again: Gravity 4 Gravity 5 Antlers Soar Of Earth and Ice It’s roughly 275,000 words of writing overall that I need to go through. And that doesn’t count the numerous short stories I’ve been working through.…