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mjdiem

Crunch Time!

Feb 25, 2009 09:29

I'm going to a workshop in Madison on Friday. A novel revision workshop. So I'm revising and revising. I took 7,000 words out of a 36,000 word manuscript over two days in an attempt to restructure. Yesterday I wrote a new 1,200 word scene that doesn't totally suck. Last night I tried to do a timeline with the Hero's Journey structure as a guideline ( Read more... )

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tracyworld February 25 2009, 16:09:51 UTC

What a wonderful post. Glad you're making progress with the aid of the strong stuff. Happy you connected with young readers. Have a great time at the workshop.

mjdiem March 2 2009, 02:37:05 UTC

Thanks, the buzz was quite effective. I had the happy caffeine jitters to the point of levitation. :P

akamarykate February 25 2009, 16:16:40 UTC

Wow, awesome progress--and here I was just wondering about chapter 2!

It sounds like a really neat run-in at the bookstore (and I have a fleeting idea who the dim undead wannabee might be, and now I want to snark with you about it...).

My dad just made me a bracelet with alphabet beads: BIC HOK. I'm trying to live by it today, hoping I can at least kill chapter 12. Would love details about the revision retreat when you come back!

mjdiem March 2 2009, 02:42:26 UTC

LOL! It took me a while to figure out the HOK of BIC HOK, but I got there eventually....

Workshop was great, lots to do and fix and yes, kill. Hope your chapter 12 had a happy death.

"We gather today in the sight of God and all the vowels to put to rest this young and tender chapter of the prose of MaryKate. After many happy sentences and meaningful paragraphs, the lure of the Cliffs of Deletedness was just too much. Corpus Flagrante, Corpus Subtlety, Corpus Thesarus. Amen."

:::HONK::: *blowing nose*