I'm halfway through scene-by-scene revisions on my novel. (These are the big revisions; I'll still have cutting and polishing after I'm done—it never ends). Saturday morning, I reread the revised 140 pages and grew depressed because the first few pages were dull, dull, dull. It gets good—it gets REALLY good—but it takes a while. A cover letter… Continue reading Always Someone’s Story
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Stone by Stone
I am slowly but surely building a novel from my messy draft. Some days I only have time to edit a few pages - slim progress on what seems like an impossibly large job. But even pyramids were built stone by stone, so surely I can finish a book the same way. There are writers for whom editing is not such a huge… Continue reading Stone by Stone
Catherine Austen 