Absorbed in Re-Writing

I’m afraid I’ve been a less than conscientious blogger lately – and I plead the double excuse of the holidays (I’ve still had 2 parties this week!) combined with re-writing of elements of A Greater World at the request of my agent before she...

Vicarious Visit to the Harrogate Odeon

Having completed my revisions to A Greater World and sent it back to my agent  (a reworking of the way the protagonists meet) after a somewhat hesitant start, I’ve now begun a radical rewrite of Kurinji Flowers. Today my characters went to the movies at the...

My Top Tip for Editing

This giant stuck together spreadsheet is hanging on the back of my office door! I was feeling overwhelmed by the size of the task facing me in doing some fairly major rewriting of my novel, A Greater World.  I’d make some changes only to discover I’d...

Editing and More

I got the MMS back from the lovely Lis who has been editing it for me. Interesting how you discover things about yourself – that what I had thought was an anal obsession with commas is in fact a serious neglect of them – in particular when using a proper...