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
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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
Clean up time
I’m deep in the process of turning a rough first draft of the new novel “Falling Bakward” into a cleaner version suitable for other eyes. It was very discouraging yesterday, as I waded through the first two chapters and found so many horrible errors. But today, it was much smoother going. I find that when… Continue reading Clean up time