Tag Archives: revisions

Starting at the End

When it comes to blog­ging on a reg­u­lar basis, I often feel like one of the Weasley chil­dren” “Where have you been?  Beds empty! No note!” It’s been a cou­ple of months since my last post, and I can say in answer to where have you been is–Mars. Last I left y’all, the fast draft …

March 7, 2011 – 5:21 pm | By thunderchikin | Posted in Blog | Tagged , , | Comments Off

Anatomy of a Final Revision

The last of the man­u­script arrived at 6:06 PM, a day and half later than expected.This both­ered my won­der­ful pub­lisher friends more than it did me because they have dead­lines to meet, mar­ket­ing to do, etc. Me, all I have to do is accept some spot-on line edits and do a lit­tle seed­ing here and …

May 14, 2008 – 2:26 am | By thunderchikin | Posted in Blog | Tagged , , | Comments Off

Round 2: Words That Strike Fear Into My Skeevy Little Heart

Round Two of revi­sions was the same as Round 1, but dif­fer­ent. Same, in that the edi­to­r­ial notes included line-edits and mar­gin­a­lia, as well as a short edi­to­r­ial let­ter (address­ing two major issues that I’ll describe below). Dif­fer­ent in that AEV’s notes came at two dif­fer­ent times—the first half of the novel one week, the …

May 11, 2008 – 3:28 am | By thunderchikin | Posted in Blog | Tagged , , | Comments Off

Revisions? The Computer Says No

The next two blog entries were are going to be about rounds 2 and 3 of Soul Enchi­lada. I learned scads about writ­ing doing these revi­sions. It wouldn’t be a stretch to say that I became a writer some­where dur­ing the con­ve­nience store scene, some­where between the Vienna sausages and canned chili. In writ­ing about …

May 10, 2008 – 11:56 pm | By thunderchikin | Posted in Blog | Tagged , , | Comments Off