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Beyond reason
My fingers are cramped and inkstained, I’m a little bit shaky and delirious, and I’m running short on sleep. No, not some weird addiction. Actually, yes, it is a weird addiction. I’m writing again. Or, to be more precise, I’m editing. I’ve spent the last few months (off and on) wading through Holly Lisle’s How [...]
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Tags: editing, Holly Lisle, How to Revise Your Novel, in the zone, madness, manuscript surgery, obsession, Writing
Holiday Reading Roundup
What I mostly like doing on holiday is reading … on the plane, on the beach, during siesta, on the apartment balcony in the evening …. T’o-m reckons that if reading were an olympic discipline, I’d be gold medal standard. I don’t know about that, but I do know that I made a fair dent [...]
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Tags: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, Against a Dark Background, Book Review, Charlotte Gilman Perkins, Close Quarter Battle, CQB, Crash, Cup of Gold, eclectic, Henry James, Iain Banks, Iain M Banks, j g ballard, Janice Galloway, John Steinbeck, Marina Lewycka, Mike Curtis, Peter Ratcliffe, reading, SAS, The Eye of the Storm, The Marsh Arabs, The Trick is to Keep Breathing, The Turn of the Screw, The Yellow Wallpaper, Whit, Wilfred Thesiger
Re-visioning a story
I’m working through the edits of the Anneth story, and it was turning into a bit of a slog … I’ve been through it so many times that the story had gone a bit stale on me and I didn’t know where I was going with it. The river had run dry, and for a [...]
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Tags: analysis, Change, editing, perspective change, process, re-thinking, revision, Writing
Are you working tonight?
It was a simple question, asked by t’o-m last week. So why take any special notice of it? Simple. It’s the first time he’s *ever* referred to my writing as “work” … he’s been supportive of it, encouraging even, but I’ve never felt that he’s taken it terribly seriously. Until the other night, when he [...]
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Tags: learning, process, professionalism, work, Writing
Making the cut
I’ve been working the edits for Anneth … again …. and I swear this is the last time I’m going through the process. If I can’t fix it this time, then I think it needs to be abandoned for good and all. (And yes, I have said that before … trouble is, I love this [...]
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Tags: editing, Holly Lisle, How to Revise Your Novel, Writing
Harper Voyager, ISBN 978-0-00-727616-5, April 2010 The sun is setting on humanity. The night now belongs to voracious demons that arise as the sun sets, preying on a dwindling population forced to cower behind ancient and half-forgetten symbols of power. These wards alone can keep the demons at bay, but legends tell of a Deliverer [...]
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Tags: Book 2, Book Review, Demon War, Desert Spear, Peter V Brett, reading
I am very excited!
Ever since I read Peter Brett’s ‘Warded Man’, I’ve been waiting for the next book – ‘Desert Spear’. I’ve had it on pre-order on Amazon since I don’t know when, and was devastated when the release date was put back from October last year. But at last! An email from Amazon to say it has [...]
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Tags: anticipation, Desert Spear, excitement, Peter V Brett, reading
And so it begins
Last week I printed off the whole 500 pages of the Anneth manuscript, ready to start in on the edit marathon that will be Holly Lisle’s “How to Revise Your Novel” (HTRYN) course. I did the How To Think Sideways course last year, and learned so much from it, that it seemed a no-brainer to [...]
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Tags: Anneth, editing, Holly Lisle, How to Revise Your Novel, How to Think Sideways, HTRYN, Writing
Nevare Burvell anticipates a golden future. He will follow his father into the Gernian army; to the frontier and thence to an advantageous marriage. Sometimes you feel sorry for people in novels with apparently golden futures – it never seems to work out that way for them, at least not in the way they expect. [...]
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Tags: Book Review, fantasy series, Forest Mage, Renegade's Magic, Robin Hobb, Shaman's Crossing, Soldier Son trilogy
Kingdom Come J G Ballard Harper Perennial 2007, ISBN 978-0-00-723247-5 A gunman opens fire in a shopping mall. Not a terrorist, apparently, but a madman with a rifle. Or not, as he is mysteriously (and quickly) set free without charge . . . One of the victims is the father of Richard Pearson, unemployed advertising [...]
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Tags: Book Review, j g ballard, kingdom come
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