About a year ago I converted a novel-length manuscript from first-person narration to third person. It was almost impossible to do it without error. I read through the converted manuscript three times and every time I would find multiple instances … Continue reading
I just completed a revision of my detective novel, Desert Justice, and it was major surgery. I took out 5,000 words, dropping the word count to a mere 70,000. Was the detective really so flabby that there were 5K words … Continue reading
I think Hemingway once advised, “Write drunk, edit sober.” Unfortunately, I can’t write drunk — doesn’t work for me. But I can be very sober when I edit. I’ve been editing my two “finished” novel manuscripts. The first one, now … Continue reading
Editing as Creative as Writing Bell, Susan (2007). The Artful Edit: On the Practice of Editing Yourself. New York: W.W. Norton. Bell has been a book editor for decades and in this well-written and well-edited volume, provides instruction and explanation about … Continue reading