Rewriting | Rewriting
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Looms stay busy at work in my mind, weaving the story, correcting the weaves, adding all the threads, completing a design that emerges as it's...
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Aug.30.2012
Continuing my series of recaps of MWA-University in Denver, July 11, 2012.
The next presentation was given by Reed Farrel Coleman, an author and adjunct professor of English at Hofstra University.
Coleman began by...
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Aug.29.2012
The great Connie Willis says, "I rewrite grocery lists." Me, too. I have a completed novel now, and I'm almost through my first revision. First. There will not be just one. There will be at least two, perhaps three, then more to come with editorial input.
There's a...
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Aug.29.2011
It's the rainy season in Cambodia, so I took the opportunity to revisit a novel I had finished years ago, but never felt was quite right. The existential premise, as Milan Kundera calls it, wasn't clear from the text. As I read through the early chapters I realized how fresh the writing still...
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Jul.14.2011
Here I am sitting in my workroom on a hot Mid East summer's day. I'm in the business, if a poet can be said to have a business, of refreshing many of my older poems. They were fine when I wrote them, containing worthy ideas, but now call for a breath of new life. I also have many ideas for new...
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Feb.17.2011
The agent was clear: writing good, length bad. The challenge: add 20,000 words. What to do, what to do? Add a character or two? Maybe. Wax eloquent about the dust motes floating in the sunlight? Maybe again. Describe a room in more detail than necessary? (“The book on his desk was old, the spine...
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Dec.18.2010
In an interview with Bharati Murkerjee, my friend and writing group pal Gail Offen-Brown received this piece of information about Murkerjee's writing process:
[I usually write] three total drafts. As I write, I don’t look at the earlier draft. It’s a very weird and wasteful way of proceeding, I...
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Jun.28.2010
Just when you think you're done with revision, guess what? There's room to do one more (or maybe two, or three.) The smarted thing my agent did for me recently (uh, except for selling my book) was suggesting that one more revision on my recent book would be beneficial. (Her words were a little more...
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Jun.14.2010
I started this post because I started tinkering with my other blog, "Terry's Place". I don't know how many of you pop over there, but I ended up with a weekend full of headaches trying to work with the new system. And I'm clueless as to whether or not their new editing system will carry...
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May.18.2010
The question caught my eye on the forums: I've finished writing, now what?
At first, it seemed a silly question. How could a writer not know what to do next? Are there no classes, no instructions, no innate knowledge gleaned from hanging around and reading and hearing other writers complain,...
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