Flake-out Friday–Ever Feel Like Sisyphus?

Yeah, so sometimes I revise a novel so much, I feel like the poor dude, Sisyphus. (He’s the guy from Greek mythology who has to spend eternity pushing a boulder up a hill. Spoiler alert: he never makes it to the top.) This YouTube video captures the tragedy (and humor) of being Sisyphus. Enjoy! sisyphus

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Are You Sincere?

Okay, so I’m still slogging through revisions. It’s fun, daunting, and (forgive me!) tedious all at the same time. When I’m writing an original draft, my brand new plot glides so smoothly across the page, free of the eddies and currents caused by multiple read throughs, strikeouts, hack-jobs, and edits. After three, four, or even [...]

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An Axe Is A Handy Tool

Revisions. The process represents an opportunity to improve one’s writing. Before hand, the price of such an endeavor seems high. When a writer turns pseudo-surgeon, he or she runs the risk of hacking off the wrong limb, resulting in profuse bleeding and gaping wounds in the remaining manuscript. Deciding what to cut can be difficult. [...]

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Locked-In Syndrome

Editing. It’s exciting to reach this stage. It means my “work in progress” is finished, my word count goal accomplished. So why does the word make me take a step back? Maybe it’s because I’ve just spent countless hours transferring ideas, plot lines, character descriptions, and emotional dilemmas from my head onto paper, and now [...]

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