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Meteorites and A More Diverse Protagonist
I’ve really been looking at my manuscript from a different perspective the last few weeks. I got to a point in my editing where I was satisfied. It wasn’t that I thought I was finished, but I was too close … Continue reading
Posted in Characters, Personal revelations, Writing
Tagged adding juice to charaters, changes, characters, Devils' Gate, earthsdivide, Protagonist, writing
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Adios Prologue
After much deliberation and the help of my most recent conference – I am putting to rest my prologue. As a reader, I love prologues – if done well. They really can grab my attention and throw me into the … Continue reading
Posted in Personal revelations, Writing
Tagged Adios, book conference, Devils' Gate, earthsdivide, Editors, Goodbye, literary agent, manuscript, Prologue, writing a prologue
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Critiquing Group is Dreaming about my Book
I’m not really sure this is a good thing. I received a facebook message that said that one of my critique partners awoke in the morning after having dreamt about a volcano in the mountains behind her house. Suddenly a … Continue reading
Posted in Characters, Personal revelations, Writing
Tagged blue fog, character development, critique group, Devils' Gate, dreaming a book, dreams, earthquake, Earths Divide, evolving writing, lava, manuscript, manuscript feedback, peer critique, Pikes Peak Conference, Pikes Peak Writer Conference, Pikes Peak Writers Contest, pikes peak writing competition, The Earth's Divide, volcano
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A Complete Cut of 17,000 Words.
A few months ago I began my journey of editing, I thought I knew what I was doing. I was dead wrong. When I finally linked all the chapters of my book, I found out that I was about 50,000 … Continue reading
A SetBack in Editing
Writing is fantastic, editing not so much. It seems that it is a necessary evil and a very important part of preparing your manuscript. Over the past year or so I have hit many different walls in my quest to … Continue reading
Posted in Personal revelations, Writing
Tagged broken thumb, Devils' Gate, difficulty editing, earthsdivide, Editing, manuscript, medical help, professional, Set back, writing
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The First Draft is Finished
These last three weeks I have really seen the end in sight. It has been difficult yet exalting as I was moving towards finishing my first manuscript. On one hand, finishing was all that I could think of. Continue reading
Finding an Editor
I love writing and enjoy the vastness of trying to put something on paper that I have been turning back and forth in my head. It is the best part about writing because it is just that. Finding an editor has been on my mind for weeks and even months. Continue reading
Posted in Writing
Tagged agent, becoming an author, Devils' Gate, earthsdivide, Editing, Editor, literary agent, manuscript, publisher, publishing, publishing contract, research, writing
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Is a Prologue helpful?
A prologue, noted by Wikipedia, is “an opening to a story that establishes the setting and gives background details, often some earlier story that ties into the main one, and other miscellaneous information.” Continue reading
Posted in Writing
Tagged background, details, Devils' Gate, earthsdivide, Monologue, Prologue, soldiers, story, The Devil's Gate, The Earth's Divide, The Echoes, writing
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Book 1
Book 1 is scheduled to be called: The Devil’s Gate and it is part of the series called The Earth’s Divide. It took a long time and a bunch of different titles but it all came down to this. Continue reading
Earth's Divide 