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dawtheminstrel

Reading and writing

Sep 27, 2016 13:12

Reading

I've read a couple of good MG books lately. Lauren Wolk's WOLF HOLLOW is a powerful book about guilt, responsibility, the rippling effects of malice, and the loss of innocence. The narrator is a woman looking back on events that happened when she was 12, living happily on a farm during WWII. Apparently Wolk wrote it as an adult book and ( Read more... )

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perelleth October 5 2016, 01:27:05 UTC

I've been thinking of you a lot lately because my housemate is working on the last revision of her story with a professional editor, and I'm learning so much by proxy that I now understand why you have such fun editing and revising!

dawtheminstrel October 5 2016, 01:32:16 UTC

So good to see you! How's the tourist train business?

For me, revision is when the story deepens and the craft work happens.

perelleth October 5 2016, 01:48:48 UTC

ugh, don't ask. The year is being awful what with zika, and earthquake and oil hitting lows.. these are going to be the worse couple years of my life in terms of business, best in terms of what I manage to do... but it's really stressful keeping up with it. THank god, the trains and the people involved really make it worth the effort...

I know what you mean. We are having the time of our lives ( mine at least) discussing the structure of this book. This guy has the coolest programs, he draw diagrams with charactes, and " screen time" and "bubbles of relationships" and "meaningful interaction quotes"... and then we try to turn that into events or situations within the story that help fill the gaps. My friend is a short story writer, so she finds it hard to elaborate. She wants to go from point a to point b, and so this is a learning experience for us all. I'm definitely writing vicariously through her.

dawtheminstrel October 5 2016, 01:57:15 UTC

This editor sounds great! I love that kind of stuff.

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perelleth October 5 2016, 02:12:11 UTC

we have had 19 cases in the country 19!!!! But since the pandemic alert in February, the European market mostly fell dramatically. Tell me one thing that can go bad for business and I have gone through it this year.
But I'm happy, because every time I think I'm about to give up, I am reminded that I am working for these people, and that makes me stay. I have 420 employees, you know, and many of them are people from very humble background, no qualifications, and they earn very little money, and have been working in the company for 10, 15, 20, 30 years... so when they come to see me with a problem and say " you see, the company allowed me to put my children through college, I owe everything to the company..." well, then you have little doubt left that you have to fight until they send you packing. It's quite rewarding, despite all! :-)