Posts: 12806
Threads: 158
Joined: February 13, 2010
Reputation:
111
The Edit
May 22, 2012 at 9:29 pm
This is something like a blog post, so ignore me if you want. 
Six months ago, I wrote a book for NaNoWriMo. Well, I've been putting off editing it, but that is a good thing. Six months letting it settle is a perfect amount of time. Now, it is time to edit it. I must say, it's like reading something that someone else wrote. It's kind of an interesting experience. Anyway, wish me luck. It's going off to be read by what you might call a test audience as I get through it. It's a little weird to be letting someone else read it.
/blog
Posts: 25314
Threads: 239
Joined: August 26, 2010
Reputation:
156
RE: The Edit
May 22, 2012 at 11:59 pm
(This post was last modified: May 23, 2012 at 12:00 am by Cyberman.)
That's very good working practice, one that I follow myself (though I haven't written anything worth mentioning for ages) - write it, forget about it, rewrite it with a fresh eye (or a pen or whatever if you prefer). Many people worry their work to death by constantly rewriting everything they write as they write it, desperately trying to find the perfect words. Often the result is they lose interest before they get anywhere near halfway. The best advice I was ever given was "Don't get it right - get it written" and it's hard to argue with that.
Ok, enough rambling from me. Good luck and don't worry about the test audience; you can always shoot 'em afterwards.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
Posts: 6300
Threads: 78
Joined: May 14, 2011
Reputation:
82
RE: The Edit
May 23, 2012 at 5:52 am
Good luck with the editing, Shell! 
When I was young, there was a god with infinite power protecting me. Is there anyone else who felt that way? And was sure about it? but the first time I fell in love, I was thrown down - or maybe I broke free - and I bade farewell to God and became human. Now I don't have God's protection, and I walk on the ground without wings, but I don't regret this hardship. I want to live as a person. -Arina Tanemura
Posts: 12512
Threads: 202
Joined: January 3, 2010
Reputation:
107
RE: The Edit
May 23, 2012 at 6:50 am
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
Posts: 14932
Threads: 684
Joined: August 25, 2008
Reputation:
143
RE: The Edit
May 23, 2012 at 6:56 am
I take it I'm your test audience then, judging by the two chapters sitting in my inbox?
Posts: 12806
Threads: 158
Joined: February 13, 2010
Reputation:
111
RE: The Edit
May 23, 2012 at 9:39 am
You asked for it.
Posts: 4055
Threads: 39
Joined: October 2, 2011
Reputation:
16
RE: The Edit
May 23, 2012 at 6:41 pm
(May 22, 2012 at 9:29 pm)Shell B Wrote: This is something like a blog post, so ignore me if you want.
Six months ago, I wrote a book for NaNoWriMo. Well, I've been putting off editing it, but that is a good thing. Six months letting it settle is a perfect amount of time. Now, it is time to edit it. I must say, it's like reading something that someone else wrote. It's kind of an interesting experience. Anyway, wish me luck. It's going off to be read by what you might call a test audience as I get through it. It's a little weird to be letting someone else read it.
/blog
What is it about, friend?
![[Image: trkdevletbayraklar.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i128.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fp161%2Fazmhyr%2Ftrkdevletbayraklar.jpg)
Üze Tengri basmasar, asra Yir telinmeser, Türük bodun ilingin törüngin kim artatı udaçı erti?
Posts: 12806
Threads: 158
Joined: February 13, 2010
Reputation:
111
RE: The Edit
May 27, 2012 at 1:11 pm
Thank you for the well wishes, everyone. I am almost three-quarters of the way done and, for the first time ever, someone (Tiberius) has read part of it.
It is a fiction horror novel with elements of mythology, Kilic. I had to keep it simple because the challenge was to write it in a month. I did that six months ago.
My next book I think will be a collection of short stories about the humor that can be found in mental illness through the people who have lived the stories and found a way to laugh at them.
Posts: 15755
Threads: 194
Joined: May 15, 2009
Reputation:
145
RE: The Edit
May 27, 2012 at 1:18 pm
(This post was last modified: May 27, 2012 at 1:19 pm by Violet.)
(May 27, 2012 at 1:11 pm)Shell B Wrote: My next book I think will be a collection of short stories about the humor that can be found in mental illness through the people who have lived the stories and found a way to laugh at them.
Can I be a part of this, just because I can find the humor in everything? 
...
And if I don't have a mental illness or two... then just what crazy ailment are 'normal' people suffering from?! 
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
Posts: 12806
Threads: 158
Joined: February 13, 2010
Reputation:
111
RE: The Edit
May 27, 2012 at 1:25 pm
Haha, you can certainly be a part of it! I actually had a bit of an epiphany while I was typing this. Perhaps I could collect stories from our members, publish the book and then donate the proceeds of its sales to the forum. Brilliant!
|
