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Writing Update

writerpatty | February 17, 2011

I haven’t been writing all that much lately.  My sequel is still sitting on my hard drive, half-done.  But, I am very close to getting the first book up on Amazon and having it for sale here on my blog.…

Gems: Editing That Diamond. From Rough Draft to Polished Manuscript Part III

writerpatty | July 29, 2010

So far, we have done the big picture editing, where we add, subtract or move bits and pieces around.  We have worked on writing style issues, such as variety, dialogue and imagery.  That leaves us with the final inspection.

The…

Gems: Editing That Diamond. From Rough Draft to Polished Manuscript. Part II

writerpatty | June 22, 2009

In part one of my gems series on editing, we discussed macro edit which can be compare to cleaving, the first process that a diamond goes through after it is mined.  Blocking, faceting and polishing are the…

Gems: Editing That Diamond. Rough Draft to Polished Manuscript. Part I

writerpatty | June 10, 2009

editingpartoneComing to the end of a rough draft is an exhilarating process. Knowing that you can do it, that you have done it, that you have created a complete novel is something that does not get old, even after…