I have not met a single author who has said that writing was easy. There are numerous stories describing the horrors of writer’s block, struggles to fix the plot, wrapping up storylines, or developing characters, but most agree that writing that first draft, now that is the fun part. The euphoric explosion of creativity onContinue reading “The Struggle with Revision”
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Back to the drawing board
One of the hardest parts about being a writer is that moment when you share the piece you’ve been working diligently on, just to get the feedback that “kills your darlings”. Its a dreaded process but a necessary one. As I’ve worked on my 2nd draft/revision of my novel I felt myself getting stuck byContinue reading “Back to the drawing board”