None of your sentences are precious. Some of them might be good. Some might even be very good, but save yourself a world of heartache and get over the idea that they are precious.
editing
Be Prepared to Throw Pages Away
Oh S**t, Oh Cool or How to Keep a Story Interesting
How to keep a story interesting by changing the tone of your scenes and increasing the amplification of the turns as the narrative progresses.
3 Ways to Structure Your Pages Into a Story
If you’ve been writing and writing, and you’re not sure how to turn your pages into a story, here are three strategies you can try.
Writing a Novel is Hard
Writing a novel is hard. I’ve written countless drafts and discarded thousands of pages (I wish that was an exaggeration).
Keep Focused with a Writing Punch List
In a recent post, John Fox, of the BookFox blog, wrote about the challenges of self-editing. His very first bit of advice is to isolate the various elements of your […]
The Elevator Pitch
In the time since I started my novel, I have honed my elevator pitch. After eight years working on it, I thought I was getting pretty good at it. Every […]
The Final Ten Percent
If you follow along, you know I am working on two novels right now. The first I began years ago as my thesis project for my masters in writing at […]