Posts Tagged ‘ rewrite ’

Finding Your Themes

July 11, 2009

I can't deliberately write to a theme, but I'm pretty good at picking one out later. I do it every time I do Holly Lisle's One-Pass Revision, and I can't imagine revising without it now.
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I Was Going to Whine

February 14, 2009

About what? Oh, I’m sure I could have come up with something. How little time I have to write, maybe, or the fact that every time I start to edit, my brain tries to run off. But the time for whining, if ever there were such a time, is over. This edit is going...
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dadblast it!

February 9, 2009

Spent all day thinking how much better I could make that ship-fight scene, some fifteen years and a whole lot of writing experience after the first time I wrote it. How much more emotion I could wring from Ben’s horror at Eve’s ruthlessness in a dark corridor… Guess it’s back to re-writing for a...
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Reporting In

January 18, 2009

The Ben rewrite is at 2,019 words.  I shall go now and attempt to make it progress farther. Whee?
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Progression

January 18, 2009

The re-write continues. Just passed two thousand words a bit ago. I swear it’ll get faster soon. Earlier I was working on bringing some of my old blog posts over, and I read one I wrote in the middle of working on Taro. It occurred to me I better start writing what I’m working...
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There’s no damn point in knife practice with a dull knife. — Eve, quoted by Taro

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  • .@dominatordimi The only thing is to write. Whether you want to or not, are inspired or not. Set a daily quota (a low one) and never miss. 1 hr ago
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