I love nothing more than taking a shitty, bloated, unfocused first draft and hacking it right down. Truly, the scissors are the writer's most powerful tool.
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This is what I thought your vibe might sound like in editing Joe. Murder those words. But if you were in your books right now I think this is the point I trust too much and you would betray me with a cheap ghost editor for some corporate megadeal.
That's what drew me to twitter.
Write something meaningful & entertaining within an arbitrary fixed word count.
The child of power point & pecha kutcha.
It adds layers to inform, entertain & keep awake!
A beginning.
A middle.
An end.
A story that engages & changes something in the audience.
Lyrical.
Would-be writers get excited when they learn I made a living as a freelance writer. I've always told them that the sign of a writer is that they enjoy re-writing, like honing a sculpture. If all they enjoy is the first draft, they should stop while they're ahead.
I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who writes much less than perfect first drafts! 😁
But I usually under-write. I need to use scissors for all the overused words I can't seem to avoid while writing and then needle and thread to stitch on all the scene-setting descriptions I like to skip.
Writing is rewriting, or something. The more pertinent question is just what are you murdering? Is this a sequel to the Devils or a return to the First Law books? I'm anxious to know what that old codger is up to with his new proteges.
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My only regret now is that I have to wait, at least until December 25, for the next one as a possible Christmas gift!
It's just as good!!!!
Write something meaningful & entertaining within an arbitrary fixed word count.
The child of power point & pecha kutcha.
It adds layers to inform, entertain & keep awake!
A beginning.
A middle.
An end.
A story that engages & changes something in the audience.
Lyrical.
But I usually under-write. I need to use scissors for all the overused words I can't seem to avoid while writing and then needle and thread to stitch on all the scene-setting descriptions I like to skip.
Edit with ice.
“I created a vision of David in my mind and simply carved away everything that was not David.”
― Michelangelo
heh...
😅