Not much going on with me today…I spent last night getting my first-round edits on Sea of Dreams finished and back to my wonderful editor. It seems that I have a new “favorite” word with every manuscript. This time it was “then”. One hundred and twenty-eight of them (in a 30,000 word manuscript) to be exact. Holy crap! Luckily, a majority of them were total fluff, and something I could take out without impacting the sentence or the scene, but a few required rewrites, because I had ‘em bunched together. Sigh. Last year my fave word was “that”….so now it’s on my watchword list and I go through and take out as many as I can before sending up. Guess I’ve gotta add “then”, as well.
This weekend I’ve got line edits on the print version of Saints of Midland, a critique for Leigh, and a critique for Pat, so not sure how much writing I’m gonna get done, which is oddly comforting for some reason. I seriously blazed through 24K in Breath of Heaven in one month, which is *really* fast for me, and so now I like the idea of letting it percolate a bit. I think, if my schedule permits, that I’m gonna take next Friday off, and that’s what I’ll do…reread and get some word count in before I head down to my RWA meeting in Oklahoma City…
Quite frankly the favorite word lists is getting too hard to keep track of. My personal preference is the word “as” and “however”. Although I have some adjectives that get repeated from time to time.
A break is a healthy thing to do. Get your brain overworked and it goes on strike and worse it can get back at you. Trust me you don’t want that…
Nice blog.
Harry — howdy! Sorry, I just saw your comments this morning! Yeah, that ole word list seems to grow with each successive story. Sigh.
I’m gonna print out my latest novella and see what’s eluding me. Sometimes seeing it on paper makes all the diff, tho I hate killing the trees!
Have a great Monday!
Oh, it happens with missing comments. I can’t really say that I get comments, but the times it happened I found out way later.
I have a question though, okay questions, since I have a novella out myself and want to see how the situation differs with different authors. On what kind of way are your novellas published? I mean do you get them in print or digital and then how do you sell? Do you rely on the publisher to advertise or have to do it by yourself?
Hi, I can’t find any contacts on your blog. Can I ask you to send a note for me? My email is in profile.
Thanks, Chris