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 [...]
Chapter One (Otherwise Known As the Zombie Chapter)
If you’ve been following along as I wade through revisions, you might have heard me talking about how I keep going back to Chapter One.
Well, I went back to it again. And again. And again.
Why?
When I re-read the chapter, I felt like I was puking information on the page instead of telling you [...]
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 [...]
