I’ve come to the above realization today because I’ve spent the better part of late August and early September fully immersed in the world of my work-in-progress and it hasn’t felt like writing as much as puzzle-solving. Because this one isn’t a new project, it’s an old one (originally kamikaze’d years ago) and I know [...]
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Rewriting a novel is like solving a puzzle. But with WORDS.
posted by erin on September 23, 2010
http://blog.efdanehy.com/2010/rewriting-a-novel-is-like-solving-a-puzzle
Productivity! I has it.
Despite the holiday weekend (ahem, Friday to Monday) and despite a few out-of-town jaunts, I’ve written over 20,000 words in a fresh rewrite of a project I started on Saturday, June 26. I needed something to work on while I’m still sending out / waiting on the most recent completed project and switching gears entirely and [...]
posted by erin on July 6, 2010
http://blog.efdanehy.com/2010/productivity-i-has-it
Finished?!
It’s a term that’s always relative, isn’t it? Being “finished” with something — especially for writers. How finished is finished? Even now, a week after I hacked, slashed, and rewrote the final chapter in my Work in Progress, I’m reluctant to say I’m finished. In one definitional sense I am (the edited, cleaned-up, polished rewrite is [...]
posted by erin on January 26, 2010
http://blog.efdanehy.com/2010/finished
