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Eeney, Meeny, Miney, Mo…

30.06.2010

Surprises? I can take or leave them. Yesterday, I loved them. I’ve been keeping my distance from my MG WIP, circling around it, poking at it with a stick. Just when I was ready to chew myself out for procrastinating not sitting down and working on it, a rush of ideas found me—for another manuscript [...]

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Now What?

09.06.2010

So I’ve finished my draft of my middle grade work-in-progress. Okay, it’s draft 3 1/2. Sort of. This has been such a haphazard project, written is spurts that were both out of sequence and sometimes out of sync—certainly a pantser of a chapter book. But now that I have a working draft of the story, [...]

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WIP? Zip the lip…at least at first

15.04.2010

Why do we loose steam in a project? One reason, for me, is bringing it out too soon and letting other eyes at it. That leads to suggestions—often good ones, too—that I’m not ready to hear yet. That sounds odd. Why shouldn’t we want to hear constructive feedback? It’s not, not wanting the feedback. It’s [...]

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Another Pair of Eyes

07.01.2010

Getting a first draft down is torture. I chafe until I can get to revising. But as much as I love going over my WIP, there are times when you’re just too close and you need another pair of eyes. Enter the critique group, crit parter, or editor (who like librarians, are worth their weight [...]

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