Posted by on Aug 9, 2011 in allotments, rebus, rewrites | 3 Comments

Oh lord and blithering hell – where did the last six weeks go? I’d love to say that I’d been thrashing out some fabulous new piece of novel length fiction but I haven’t. I have been wading through the setting concrete of the umpteenth rewrite of my novel, but that’s not news, in fact it’s […]

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Posted by on Jan 7, 2011 in #janathon, cupcakes, dreams, editing, editors, hilary mantel, Hotel Chocolat, narrative arcs, rewrites | One Comment

Janathon Day 7 – the demotivation Dalek strikes Motivation was a problem today. This couldn’t get me out of the door, even though I wasn’t going to let myself eat it until I got home – it’s a Hotel Chocolat 5-second Chilli and it was delicious although, if I’m being totally honest, I think the […]

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Posted by on Feb 1, 2008 in editing, rewrites | One Comment

Approaching rewrites in the right way Over the last couple of years I’ve discovered that January is rewrite month. There are a several reasons for this: it’s when most of us decide to finally, finally, send out that novel that’s been sitting around for ages, and it’s when that indie publisher decides to go for […]

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