rewriting Archive
As much of a struggle as it was last time to clean up the half-rewritten scene I’d left myself, upon further reflection, I realized that it all had to go. I had let it get away from me and my …
On my last B1P day, I left a messy knot to untangle. I had started to write a scene, but then changed the order of my hero moving and observing her surroundings – which moved the observation to another observation …
Last time, I wrote that I had finished one of my major chapters, and was looking forward to moving on to the next one, but as I started that process today, I found myself with a mess on my hands. …
In my last post about my non-fiction book, I mentioned that I was having a hard time explaining the particular step I was describing without an example, but that the example I had chosen was not particularly great. Today, I …
While I was writing today’s section in my non-fiction, it simply wasn’t coming across the way I wanted, so I decided it was time for an example. Unfortunately, that led down a bit of a research rabbit hole as I …
Now that I have wrangled my outline and organization of this book to better serve my readers, I’m going back to rewrite the intro to make the book as easy as possible to use. This is my first attempt (with …
Today, I went back to tackle that section that went so badly on Monday. Thanks to having floundered with it the first time and having a couple days for it to stew in the back of my mind, I was …
OK, so I’m going to be flipping back and forth between fiction and non-fiction and for now, at least, I’m going to try to rewrite Heir to Ruin but keeping things simpler and more upbeat. I’m only going to focus …
Yesterday, I wrote about how I was trying to shove too much into my first plot point scene. It had gotten derailed by an argument between two of the characters before getting to the point. While I wanted to show …