Wednesday Wisdom For Writers and Those who Love Them

"You're not a hundred dollar bill; not everyone is going to like your story." —Meg Cabot



Nuff said.





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Wednesday Wisdom for Writers and Those Who Love Them

"You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you, and we edit to let the fire show through the smoke." —Arthur Plotnik


FLAME GAME is in the beta reader stage. Next up, a professional edit. This quote was just too perfect not to use.




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Wednesday Wisdom for Writers and Those Who Love Them

"Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else." —Gloria Steinem

Since that's true, I have to wonder at my incredible ability to procrastinate. And doubt. Yeah, mostly doubt.

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Winkin', Blinkin' and Duh

Tonight I finished my text-to-speech edit for FLAME GAME. It's amazing what else I caught. It's scary what else I caught. It makes me terrified of what else I've missed.

And overused words? Oh, my.

I have a lot of four-letter words that I'll be cleaning up. When I wrote them they seemed to fit. But hearing them? Oh, dear. A little too much. Especially the f-bomb. There will be plenty that will win the war and remain in the manuscript, but seriously, it's embarrassing.

Then there's my newest: wink. Everyone was winking at everyone. I went from easily ten "winks" in my manuscript to three. And two of them were from a dog. That's how bad it was. You need to know though, I kept one of those. I might even have a contest surrounding that particular canine wink.

My next step is to assign chapters and do a little more finessing based on notes I've made and additional research that's come in from my experts.

Then off to my beta readers! I'm so excited to hear what they have to say. And just a little (okay, a lot) anxious.



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Wednesday Wisdom for Writers and Those Who Love Them

"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." —Thomas Mann


Can I get an amen?




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