Posts Tagged ‘ Ben ’

So…quitting the Doomy Summer of Editing DOOM didn’t actually happen. When I backed off my guys for a bit, they came up with some answers. They waited till we were halfway through the frakking book because they’re assholes, yes, but…answers. Along with stumbling about trying to fix the implausible plot in this book, I’ve...
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I think I made some fifteen pages of forward progress today. At last. That’s actually an awful lot, with the level of rewriting needed. I figure I cut about twenty-five pages, repurposed five, and entirely rewrote ten. For one day, that’s a lot. Now, however, I must fall over. Oh! Learned today–how to print...
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I finished those two connecting scenes today. 2400 words. At last. I’m not happy with them, but I have the basics of what I need. This isn’t a final run through–this is my attempt to get the entire book in place, in close to its final shape. Polishing comes later. I have made a...
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From: KD To: KD’s Brain RE: Doomy Summer of Editing DOOM Okay, Brain, seriously. We have got to kick it into gear. Do you want all these novels still hanging over us when August rolls around? August, and September, when it’s all we can do to crawl to work, and crawl back home? What...
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Man, there is some serious garbage in this manuscript. It’s like decluttering–first I started small, deleting the “seems” and “really”s, then I started hacking scenes, then I hacked it in half-sorta…each round I find more I need to get rid of, until I can actually see that huge gilded elephant statue that’s falling apart...
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