by Rebecca | Mar 3, 2011 | revising, slightly incoherent due to revision brain, talking about writing, unintended barf connotations, why so many tags for such a short and insubstantial post?, WIP
I adopted a nifty, new (to me) process while revising my WIP: chunking.chunking • \chung’ king\ v. 1 the processing of splitting an overwhelming MS into “chunks,” or parts, in order to revise the whole by parts.I didn’t set out to chunk my MS...
by Rebecca | Sep 20, 2010 | nerdiness, revising, talking about writing, writing
Before I started inputting my hard-copy edits Saturday, I decided to make a Wordle of my MS. (Yes, I was procrastinating.) Copying my entire 70K MS to the clipboard and pasting it into the Wordle maker almost killed my computer, which was probably EXTREMELY STUPID to...
by Rebecca | Aug 30, 2010 | revising, WIP, writing
I love getting comments from beta readers. In particular, I love getting comments from my mom as a beta.My mom isn’t just a sweetheart reader, although she is very encouraging and supportive and tactful. She’s also a really good critic. I must have...
