I finished the rewrite on my novel last week and sent it off. And so what does a writer do next? Why, start the next novel, of course. But in my case, I am going back to a novel. Here’s the story. I have a full-length novel and a loooong novella languishing on my computer. […]
You probably know, because I’ve been whining about it incessantly, that I’m in the throes of completing the umpteenth rewrite of my current novel. I am determined to finish it this long Memorial Day weekend if it kills me. And it might. Kidding. Sort of. Anyway, I had dinner with a couple of writing friends […]
Okay, so there it is–your manuscript. You’ve just gotten it back from your beta readers. Or your editor. Or your agent. Perhaps it is a lovely stack of papers with writing all over the page. Or maybe it is a file on the computer, laden with those little comment boxes. You’ve read over all the […]
Ah, rewriting. So fun! So engaging! So intense! I’m serious, I actually really like it. But it can also be mind-boggling. Where to begin? How to approach it? What to do? One concept that may be useful to you is that of draft passes. I’ve done this myself and recommended it to others, but I’ve […]
I finished draft two of my romance novel this past weekend. Woot woot! It still needs work so there was no dancing in the streets or swinging from chandeliers. Just a quiet sigh of pleasure. And there’s always a bit of confusion as I ponder, what do I do next? So I figured a blog post […]
In case you hadn’t noticed, writing fast has become quite the thing lately. This is for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is that, if you want to indie publish, your fans expect you to pump books out one after another. And you can’t maintain that pace if you write slowly. Writing […]
I spent last weekend going through my novel, The Bonne Chance Bakery. My agent is about to submit it to some editors again and she suggested I might want to read through it. I hadn’t looked at it since last August, when I rewrote it. So I said, yeah, I’d take a glance. Geezus. I’m really […]
So, you did it. You finished Nanowrimo. Huge congratulations! It is quite a journey, isn’t it? But now what, you might be thinking. And rightfully so. You’ve just put forth a ton of creative energy over the last month. Here is my 10-step plan for what to do next. 1.Decide if you’re at the end, […]
So, my novel manuscript, the one I’m almost done rewriting, originally came in at over 107,000 words. I know. Waaaaaay too long. “But part of it is recipes,” I told myself. Right. Like maybe 500 words. Under orders from my agent, I’m in the process of cutting it to under 100K. (I’m […]
I’m back. It didn’t seem like much of a hiatus, at least from this end. And I’m still not finished with the rewrite. But I’m making excellent progress and feel very good about it. (And, so you don’t think I’m all fakey optimistic, let me just remind you that I sat out most of July […]
