In the last six weeks, I’ve had to work on edits for two different books for two different publishers. The key word here, I’m finding, is “different”. I had a publisher several years ago, and that book went through three or four rounds of edits. It was an eye opener to have someone see your…
Tag: Edits
Halfway and Unfinished
I was talking with a writer the other day. Those writers. You know the type. Shifty-eyed. Distracted. Stinking of gin and desperation. A nervous laugh and a hair-trigger sense of despair. Yes. A writer. She was working on her first novel, and times were bad. Why were times bad? Because she was about halfway through…
How Many Drafts Does It Take To Get To the Gooey Chocolate Center of a Bestselling Novel?
So recently, in the writing community, we’ve been a-buzz over a blog post that warned no writer should ever write four books in one year. I won’t paraphrase, but issues came up over quality and care and other such fears for people who write fast. I thought I could write a big long blog post…