Something to Consider

| July 31, 2013

The power of the judicious edit. While I was at RWA’s national meeting, I spoke with someone who was pretty upset by another author who had said she couldn’t read a book without editing. I wasn’t so put off with that because I’ve worked as an editor and writer since about two years after I […]

Middle of the Night…

| March 14, 2012

And I’m posting a blog. I took pictures all over town of spring busting out. (Although I don’t know if it’s spring, when the temps are about to climb into the 80s.) A sign of spring most people don’t note–me whining about the heat. Unfortunately, my phone (the only camera I ever remember) is upstairs […]

Editing

| March 13, 2012

I’m editing both my stuff and contest stuff. But I have a whole quiet day to do it in. For my stuff, I’m remembering several story points/characterization changes as I go. I’ve put them on sticky notes on my laptop. When I was in school, writing anything down made me remember it. If I wrote […]