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January 06, 2006
adventures in line editing
I didn't get into any actual manhandling of pages. I spent an hour writing out the points I need to watch out for in the revisions, and more than that printing pages, arranging them, setting up the workspace, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
When I hand-write, it's a bit like watching someone have a minor seizure. My fingers jerk and twitch as the words try to materialize as fast as my brain is reeling them out. It helps that pens nowadays write more smoothly, but college was hell -- to say the least.
I came up with a swell twist to Kaiji's curse last night, and jotted it down in the Poison notebook. It's one of those nice "hooks" that I can use to entice agents and publishers to read my damn fiction. I hope.
In other news: I spent two hours in bed with Lois McMaster Bujold's Paladin of Souls and I don't regret it one bit.
- blacktop pavement cover me
like a chemical reaction
or a steamroller
spreading randomly
Posted by sdshaver at January 6, 2006 12:25 PM