Writing Process – Page 7

Does it serve the book? Killing your darlings is a mark of writing maturity

Originally posted on Nail Your Novel:
Last weekend I was teaching a workshop at Writecon Zurich and one of the issues we discussed was killing your darlings. I used the example of a very precious scene I deleted from My Memories of a Future Life. The full story, including the scene, is here, but briefly,…

Patience is a virtue (that you’ll need if you want to trad-pub)

Originally posted on Wages of War:
In my first post in this series, I explained how being published (and by that I mean traditionally published, going the agent-to-publisher route) has been my dream since I was a teenager. What I didn’t know back then, and what I didn’t realize until I’d already started down the…

Behind The Book: Second Editions Are Twice The Headache

This is part of a series of posts entitled Behind The Book, where fellow author Carrie Morgan and I share the ups and downs of the writing and publishing process — traditional and self-published. We all judge books by their cover. No matter how much we want people to judge our stories by their actualContinue reading “Behind The Book: Second Editions Are Twice The Headache”