First story of the year almost completed

Chivalrybean — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 04:15:47 +0000

I went through one of my short story called Send In today and changed a bit of the prose. I wrote it originally in Google Docs, but moved it over to yWriter. Once there I ran some of the ‘problem words’ searches and found I had a lot of works that ended with ‘ly’. I wasn’t sure what this meant so I asked Matt Selznick on gTalk about it and he said I was probably taking shortcuts of descriptions. To clarify I asked if ‘The car quickly sped up’ versus ‘The engine revved as the car sped up’ is what he meant. That was exactly what he meant so I went through and changed most of the ‘ly’ instances to have more detail.

I did a few other changes, the program suggested and aside from just better description, one part of the story near the end has a much stronger narrative now, plus a hilarious joke.

All that is left is correcting typos and making sure I stayed in the proper tense, then I think it will be good to go. It will be over 3300 words.

Half a year later

Chivalrybean — Thu, 14 May 2009 06:42:11 +0000

Last November I participated and survived and completed NaNoWriMo. I finished by writing ten thousand words on the last day.

Whew!

Then I let the book sit for six months.

In a day or two’s time I had a few mentions of it, and was thinking about it, so I decided to start editing it.

I went through chapter One today. I made some changes, fixed some errors, and pondered the whole plot of the book. As is I have two viewpoint characters, but I’m wondering if I should cut one and have them meet in totally different ways.

I think it will be best to make it work as it is, then make major changes like that later.

I’ll continue going through chapter by chapter.

I know there are three sections I really like. Chapter one, the last chapter, and one scene. The rest, I’m not so sure about.

The Space Turtle » Editing

First story of the year almost completed

Half a year later