by SMThornton | Sep 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
It’s amazing how you can edit the same passage a kazillion times, but when you go back and read it one more time you find more glaring errors. I’ve been pondering the ending of my WIP (already written, but there’s something missing) and going through...
by SMThornton | Sep 1, 2009 | Uncategorized
I just got back my comments from Janet Reid from Fine Print Literary Management. She missed the Alaska Writer’s Guild Conference (cursed airlines!), but was still able to read the first fifteen pages of my WIP and offer some very valuable feedback. I sent her a...
by SMThornton | Aug 29, 2009 | Uncategorized
There are words I love. And phrases I adore. Lackadaisical and phantasmagoric are two of the best words in the English language. Some of you may quibble (another great word!) with phantasmagoric actually being a word, but I’ve seen it used in print and speech...
by SMThornton | Aug 9, 2009 | Uncategorized
Blood Red Pencil would be proud of me. Yesterday I killed one of my darlings, a beautiful scene set at the foot of the pyramids. “But you just went to the pyramids,” you say. “Why would you cut a scene like that?”It was a plot-killer with no...
by SMThornton | Aug 6, 2009 | Uncategorized
I am still editing.I was pleasantly surprised to discover that a chapter I wrote a couple months ago, flying by the seat of my pants, is actually really good. It adds some serious tension to the plot- always a good thing. All excited by that extra boon, I was then...
