On Revision: How, Exactly, Do I Murder My Darlings?
After boiling my novel down to Just One Thing and identifying some crap, I need to decide what to do with it all. Here is how, exactly, I am going to […]
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Just Keep Going: Finally Getting to My Theme
He’s making me boil my novel down to One Thing. Your novel needs to be about One Thing, he tells me! I fight it. It can’t be just about One […]
How I’m Editing My Manuscript
After the frantic rush of drafting a 113,000-word novel from NaNoWriMo 2013 to March 2014, it’s time to stumble through editing the manuscript. Three funerals (one of which was my father’s) and […]
