Writing

Here’s the process I’ll be trying out as I edit the nearly 500 pages of double-spaced text in my first draft.

Third Person Point-of-View

A lot of books are told by a narrator.

Advice for Writers
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January 5, 2016

When I started Serpent’s Smile with the “one chapter per week” goal, my writing process included a rewrite and an edit before each post. That was how I blogged - or at least how I tried to blog.

Critique Group
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December 8, 2015

In the Facebook search bar, try “YourCity writers workshop”, substituting nearby city/area names. You’ll want to try several and note (pen and paper) the interesting ones for followup. In my case, I found four critique groups for writers.

The Martian by Andy Weir, his first novel and soon to be a movie (click for trailer), was originally published on the author’s personal website without charge. You could read it free. That’s “free as in no money.”

Writing from the heart occurs in two distinct phases: spew, and then clean it up.

In a blog, that process means there were several premature publications of that article and, depending on when someone looked, they would see different versions with different thoughts and, sometimes, different conclusions.

Wise Blood
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February 13, 2015

Last night, I watched “Wise Blood” (1979 film production) as derived from the Flannery O’Conner novel of the same name. I say derived because the time of the story has been changed and, after watching the film, I suspect other changes and omissions, enough that Flannery, were she still alive, might want to distance herself from this production.

History

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