Archive for the ‘editing’ Category

"I’m playing all the right notes. But not necessarily in the right order."

Posted: 20th January 2011 by admin in edit notes, editing, Thoughts on Writing
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Some people dislike the idea of being edited. They believe that having spent nine months/two years/half a lifetime* (*delete as appropriate) writing their book that it must be perfect and it should simply be set in print and placed on the shelves to sell in its gadzillions. Most of them are wrong. If you are one [...]

OUFF!

Posted: 9th June 2010 by admin in CHANGELING, DEMON GAMES, editing, Steve Feasey, Writing
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Some books are harder to write than others. Some are painful. Having just edited Book 4 (Changeling: Demon Games), I can honestly say that I’ve experienced the writing equivalent of a good, swift kick in the spuds. This book was hard work. I had an uncomfortable time getting my head around the various storylines that [...]

Apologies for being a bad blogger.

Posted: 3rd November 2009 by admin in CHANGELING, editing, Steve Feasey, Writing
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Yes, I’ve been remiss in my postings. But I’ve had a good excuse: I’ve been ill. Yes I’ve contracted it…man-flu. It was announced on the news this morning that man-flu is far more serious than the latest H1N1 swine-flu virus, so I’m feeling very smug that I’ve been soldiering on through it. I’m editing Changeling: [...]

Ta-dah!

Posted: 4th September 2009 by admin in Blood Wolf, CHANGELING, edit notes, editing, Getting published, Macmillan, werewolf, Writing
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My editing is finished (well, the first round of edits is finished). I rewrote the epilogue to Changeling: Blood Wolf last night, closed down my laptop, and sat back with a big sigh. Not all of the changes that I’ve made sit well at the moment. Some of the ‘suggestions’ made by my editor have [...]

Must try harder…

Posted: 2nd September 2009 by admin in Blood Wolf, CHANGELING, edit notes, editing, Macmillan, Steve Feasey, werewolf, Writing
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I’ve been remiss with my blog postings. Sorry. But in the last few weeks I’ve been really busy: editing. I’ve blogged about the editing process before: How the prospect of it always fills me with dread, and how, once I’ve begun, I usually enjoy the whole process. It’s great to read something that you’ve written [...]

Begin at the beginning

Posted: 23rd April 2009 by admin in beginnings, book openings, CHANGELING, Dark Moon, editing, Steve Feasey, Thoughts on Writing, Writing
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The beginning of a novel, and how to go about it, poses some interesting problems (for me at least). There is a popular school of thought that says that you need a momentous opening: a dead body, a car crash, a fight, the loss of a loved one, the accidental detonation of a small thermo-nuclear [...]

Fix bayonets!

Posted: 20th April 2009 by admin in CHANGELING, Dark Moon, edit notes, editing, Getting published, Macmillan, published, Steve Feasey, Writing
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I finished the latest round of edits from my publisher on Friday, and when I closed down my laptop there was a big, stupid grin on my face. It’s a great feeling to know that you’ve got through another round of edits. It’s like taking your book by the hand, and running through a muddy [...]

So what colour are edits? Red.

Posted: 27th February 2009 by admin in CHANGELING, changes to manuscript, Dark Moon, edit notes, editing, Getting published, Macmillan, published, Thoughts on Writing, vampires, werewolf, Writing
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Yesterday I received the editing notes for Changeling: Dark Moon, and I went through the usual raft of emotions that every author goes through once they realise that their submitted novel is not quite as perfect as they had thought it was. Now don’t get me wrong, I know my books aren’t perfect when they [...]