Last night I finished my first big revision of Hubris. There were only a couple of major changes: I had to do a complete rewrite of the critical first page, remove the second chapter and place its exposition much later in the story, and cut out about a third of one lengthy middle chapter. I [...]
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November 27th, 2009
It’s done: the dreaded first readthrough of Hubris is finished. I don’t know if other writers find it as scary as I do to take a fresh look at their work; when I finished The Northerners, I had to make myself wait a full week before going over it, but now I could set a [...] November 23rd, 2009
Just as I was about to start my first read-through of Hubris (and still am), I received another partial request from an agent interested in The Northerners. I was just about ready to give up on querying The Northerners – I was even saying so as I opened the envelope, since I was convinced it [...] October 28th, 2009
Hubris – that is, the first draft of Hubris – is complete. 90,000 words have brought me to the most wonderful words to write in all writingdom: The End. That wordcount, incidentally, makes this book the longest piece of writing I’ve ever done. That’s not interesting to anyone but me, but welcome to the blogosphere. Now [...] October 25th, 2009
I’ve abandoned my 1000-word-a-day goal, but that’s a good thing. Now I’m sprinting for the finish line. In the last three days I’ve written something like 5,000 words and I’m almost to the big climactic climax of the story. There’s a lot that goes on in the end of this book; it [...] |
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