Following the Plot All The Way Through to the End
Wanted to drop by and share something interesting with all of you about what I’ve been learning lately.
So, in the first version of ARGENTUM, I wanted to explore the world of the Violet War and needed a story to do it. Did my first draft make an excellent novel? NO. Why? Because the story [...]
The Mechanics of Revising: Font, Copy and Paste
After I got all excited about my spectacular “Chapter One,” I ended up revising a short story that needed some work and stumbled across different submission guidelines for various markets. I took one look at the formatting guidelines and went… “Uh-oh…ARGENTUM does not look like that…”
So, I went ahead and formatted it differently using a [...]
Goodbye Chapter One, I’ll Miss You
I feel like I turned a corner this past weekend, because the last two weeks have been…painful. I knew I needed to change the verb tense of my exposition from present to past, but I wasn’t sure how that was going to work for the beginning of the story.
Instead of opening the novel with [...]
Knee-Deep in the Second Draft
So part of what I talked about before, when I mentioned a little bit about the revision process for Argentum, was the idea that I should change the story’s verb tense. Writing in first person with a present tense is somewhat challenging because the main character can have that “deer in headlights” perspective. At some [...]
Dear Readers: Notice on Editing and Revisions
Hi folks,
Thanks for stopping by and reading The Violet War. Just to let you know, my goal with this project is to make this book as readable and as entertaining as possible for you. As such, there will be times where I’ll go back in and tweak material because I’ve found that I’ve gone comma-happy [...]
