Jul 01
Another month, another chore
Posted: under Revisions, the writing life.
Tags: mistakes, progress report, revision, the writing life July 1st, 2009
First: Happy Canada Day to you Canadians.
Second: This may make you laugh. It did me. Critical scene–critical in terms of reader spatial orientation as well as reader “what’s happening” orientation.
And I got both direction (east v. west) and possibility wrong. It was a plot bomb, and I was writing as fast as I could, but still! East is east and west is west and if you go the wrong way you end up in the wrong place. And one little three-letter word (“not”) makes a huge difference.