Posts Tagged ‘first draft’
Soundtracks for Your Novels
Posted by: Deborah Ayers on: February 27, 2010
- In: writing
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If you’re anything like me, music is an integral part of your life. I’m one of those people who steps out the door and wishes there was some kind of soundtrack going to greet me along with the day. I also wish that sometimes, an entire street would break out into song like they do [...]
Amusing the Muse
Posted by: Deborah Ayers on: December 27, 2009
- In: writing
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Lately, I’ve been on a bit of a dry streak. I’m nearly finished with this first book in a series and I know what I have to write, yet…I cannot write it! I’m a pretty careful plotter (especially with this one because it is the introduction to a series, and a whole new universe!), so [...]
Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble
Posted by: Kirsten Imani Kasai on: December 4, 2009
- In: writing
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At my editor’s suggestion, I’ve bumped a scene from way back around chapter 20 to the very front of the book. She’s right, it is a stellar opening line and much more effectively sets the scope for the entire adventure in Tattoo. But that leaves me with scads of cutting, pasting, rewriting and reimagining to [...]
Caught in the eddies
Posted by: Kirsten Imani Kasai on: November 12, 2009
- In: discussion
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I feel you Sharon! Sorykah and Chen are currently vacationing in my brain and it I’m right there with them. They’re in the country and the air is warm, heavy and sweet. I can see and feel every detail, from the peeling, sun-bleached travel poster at the train station to the gold rim on the [...]
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