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Tag: Novel

Printing Reviewer Copies

Well, now that the initial cleanup is done on the novel, I now have to hand a copy to several trusted reviewers. They will read it and mark up the stuff I missed. Over the years, the review copy style has changed. When a writer (in my case) thinks of a manuscript, it’s in standard… Continue reading Printing Reviewer Copies

Published March 16, 2005
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Novel, Review, writing

Listening to Vikki

One of the steps to my manuscript clean up process, is listening to it. With some of my earlier works, I had spoken it out loud, but a novel this size takes ten hours, at a normal pace. Instead, for several years now, I’ve converted the text to a spoken file using the text-to-speech software… Continue reading Listening to Vikki

Published March 15, 2005
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Novel, text2speech, writing

That Annoying First Chapter

One of the things I have to revisit several times is the first few pages of the book. My last few novels have all started out in the here and now, with ordinary people in ordinary lives, but by the end of the tale, the protagonist has become powerful, or famous — an inventor, an… Continue reading That Annoying First Chapter

Published March 14, 2005
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged hook, Novel, writing

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