Instead of working on a new project last night, I opened up the beginning of a work in progress novel and reread the first few chapters. It felt like visiting a old friend from high school, even though I wrote it long after I left public education. The sentiment was still there. I still loved [...]
Posts under ‘Editing’
How Many Times Do You Edit?
I think I have an uber-editing disease. I have one novel that I have edited and proofread about 27 times.
Why?
I occasionally get the feeling it is because I am scared to let my baby out into the world, but then I realize that is other people talking. I’m not scared really, I just [...]
S&M and the Inner Editor
During NaNoWriMo, the most popular refrain is “Kill the Inner Editor!” Now, I refuse to kill my inner editor, since I’m not completely convinced in the resurection of life. I need my editor, see, since I play on actually submitting my novel to publishers.
But I don’t want to get bogged down in editing [...]
