Once upon a time in a suburb far, far away there lived a mid-level-peasant girl with delusions of grandeur (hi mom!). One day her BFF casually said, “You know all those trashy romances you read and then complain about how you would have done it differently? The ones that I can’t actually read because the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Revision’
17 Mar
Revision with Lani Diane Rich Or: How I Learned to Let Go of Useless Infodump and Find the Plot
26 Feb
Tucker: Opening Scene (2.0)
The names have been changed to protect the innocent. Well… not exactly. In fact, the names and basic set up are the only things you’re likely to recognize in this new and (I dare hope) much improved version of Tucker’s opening scene. It’s rough – really rough – but overall I’m very excited about its [...]
31 Jan
Tucker: Opening Scene (version 3-ish)
So, sometime last fall I decided to dust Tucker off and take another whack at it. 5 whacks, actually. The results are… not going to be shown here. 3 are incomplete and the 4th is an experiment I was attempting – a hybrid of prose and screenplay formatting. Not pretty. Though I’m not convinced it [...]
31 Jan
Tucker: Opening Scene (version 2)
Headline: September 2008 the DLD* draft of Tucker is DONE. (insert rain of confetti here!) I was deliriously happy, but under no illusions as to the worthiness of my newly finished product. Almost immediately I began the beta draft for Tucker. Now any chef worth his santoku knows when you pull a steak off the [...]
31 Jan
Tucker: Opening Scene (version 1)
Here is the opening scene of the finished draft. I counted 8 other partial drafts, false starts on the road to revising this turkey Tucker. So without further ado: “Well, aren’t you just all shiny and new?” Josh looked up from his iced tea and over his left shoulder, the direction the low smoke scarred [...]
