With the holidays behind us, I’ve made some more edits to my problematic opening and am hoping this time I’ve nailed it. I’d like to give a shout-out to Lisa Amowitz, who gave me some great suggestions on where my opening got too complicated or off-track. She found lots to love, but she also enabled me to …
My #writer friends will understand when I observe the irony around the first two books in my trilogy. For book 1, I cut a 121K manuscript down to 87K words. I axed scenes, subplots, weak jokes, convoluted exchanges, and long-winded phrasing. The lessons of such an exercise permeate your entire writing habit after awhile, and you become akin …
My book’s opening continues to be an incredible challenge. This week I got new feedback on it at the Pikes Peak Writers Open Critique, which was great in that there were a good variety of people to critique, and help point out a number of remaining flaws in the opening, whille also noticing some of the …