Tag: Suited

Nov 21

Maybe we should just knock the whole thing down?

By Joanne

If this novel draft is a house, then this revision is the kind of renovation where the only thing that stays the same are the numbers out the front. Eeek, I know, analogy torture. I’ve come to the weighty decision that the structure of the entire beginning is wrong. Time to cut, rearrange, paste then …

revision, Suited, Writing
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Nov 11

Midnight Echo 3… coming soon!

By Joanne

Midnight Echo 3 is nearly here and looks suitably creepylicious! Can’t wait to see it. In other news, I’ve had a minor back injury relapse. Not so bad I can’t sit and type, but bad enough to stop me sleeping soundly. Physio tortured me for a while today and hopefully we have caught it before …

Sep 21

Junk food and good writing buddies

By Joanne

Is it really worth analyzing the writing of this novel draft any more than I’ve already done? I have angsted like an angsty thing about it. Hell, it even led to the creation of a ‘Writerly Angst’ category. So, you know what? No more angst. Instead, one of the positive things this draft taught me …

Sep 20

done

By Joanne

Well, there we go, first draft done. Just over 113,000 words in the end. This will grow in the next draft, and probably significantly. This draft suffers from a terrible lack of description. Even I don’t know what a few of the characters look like. And there are at least two vitally important plot points …

Sep 14