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Editing Update 29/08/07

August 30th 2007 00:40
Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me, happy birthday...

It's the hottest day of the year and I haven't left the house at all. My internet has returned from its way-too-long vacation. My editing hasn't really returned yet. I'm not able to get into it like I was before; the heat has completely fried my brain and I'm finding myself completely unable to think straight.

I did get two critiques back. The first seven or so chapters are the only ones anybody's really complained about, which is a happy moment for me. The unhappy moment is that there was really quite a lot of complaining about the first seven or so chapters. I may post the prologue up here to get some comments on it. I'm horrible at beginnings and my books tend to get better and have really awesome endings, but beginnings? *Snicker*


Talking about Moonshadow, by the way. I'll be getting down to business and doing a basic revision of the first ten chapters tonight, and printing out a fair number of said chapters just because. I hate printing. Our printer is slow. It's really no good at all. But whatever.

At least I've gotten some decent sleep and should be able to get some decent writing and revising done tonight. I'm off to take a bath, and then I shall return to the world of the internet... *Is happy*
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Editing update 27/08/07

August 27th 2007 22:58
My birthday is tomorrow!!! I was working today, all went well, but as for the editing...

I did a fair bit of brainstorming. You know, got all the basic ideas out. For Jihad, I have a mix of brainstorming and outlining, which is there to tell me what I need to write. I also did a lot of brainstorming for blogs. The hope is-in order to make best use of my time-that I will be able to write a post every day, no matter if it gets posted THAT day. This way, I'll have some backups, anyway.

I've been busy dreading *cough* I mean, uh, planning for, school, so that's about all I've done. I'm supposed to write a motivational post today, or something, but I can't think of anything particularly motivational. I will need to come up with something, at the very least.


There will be a post at least three times a week... I promise... or at least I'll try to come out with a post at least three times a week.

On to other things, then?
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Editing Update 26/08/07

August 25th 2007 18:40
Really Long Link

Read that.

I've been doing... not much... I'm working on a new novel based loosely off some short stories I wrote a few years back. I've realized that the tone of Fairy Tales is too modern and it just doesn't feel right for the story, so I'm rethinking it.

I have to check my gmail, but I suspect my crits will be back in. (Yayz, 'cause I can't use them because I can't go online to check my email.)

I need a fresh idea. A *new* story. For NaNoWriMo.
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Sorry People

August 17th 2007 11:56
I basically ran for 15 hours on 5 hours of sleep before falling unconscious. It's a long, vaguely unpleasant story. I didn't get time to blog, and when I woke up today I was playing Final Fantasy 12 for over an hour. So I still have no real time to blog, 'cause I'm leaving in just over 20 minutes.

Tonight I have a baseball game. Then I have to go somewhere with a computer and internet, which is one of two places at the moment. So, I'll probably be blogging at almost midnight tonight. Sadly


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Editing Update 15/08/07

August 15th 2007 22:05
Not much today. Actually, I didn't do anything, and I won't get a chance to; I'm heading out now and I won't get home until around eleven thirty. I'm working tomorrow starting at 9:15, so I need to sleep.

See you tomorrow! (I'll post today's post tomorrow. Just think of it as late. Sorry.)
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Editing Update: 15/08/07

August 15th 2007 01:24
So, I'm on chapter one of the new and improved Fairy Tales books. Starting with The Sisters. So far it has a very modern, urban feel to it, what with Alana and her single mom, their little bungalow and her laptop. Her voice is very much overly-mature ten year old who's been through the tough times, and my writing it makes it just that much more realistic.

By the end of the book, everyone will probably be looking at me funny, seeing as how it and the two after it are pretty much high fantasy, with a couple sci-fi elements thrown in. (One's about the Magi taking over the world, and one's about the afterlife, then about a colony, then about trying to stop someone from killing off the main character. Long story. Took 3 50K novels to tell it the first time around


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Editing Update 13/08/07

August 14th 2007 02:23
Well, today, seeing as how I woke up like an hour ago, I haven't done too much... unless you count before I went to bed.

In which case, I am THE obsessive compulsive editor of the day. No joke. I've been editing Moonshadow's Guardian somewhat obsessively. I'm that anxious/hyper to get it out there. I really am


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Editing Update: 12/08/07

August 12th 2007 04:42
Hmm, so yesturday I was 2 days off. Sorry.

Today I didn't get much of anything done, because I'm useless like that. I've been doing plenty of research, but not much actual editing


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The Editing Update

August 11th 2007 06:01
Today I didn't do much, and I was too social to finish much of anything.

I rewrote a few paragraphs for Moonshadow's Guardian simply because editing it has become a minor obsession or perhaps just habit. It's grown just a tad addictive


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Notice

August 10th 2007 20:34
Notice me
See how I bleed
How the red comes pouring


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Editing Update: Jihad

August 9th 2007 23:04
So today I realized I'm done with Moonshadow's Guardian. Meaning it's time to pay more attention to my other works. I am setting myself a new goal, to finish a piece of fiction writing every day until school starts.

Why? Because I'm slightly nuts. Also, because it gives me something to actually edit. I'm not talking 'finish one of my novels everyday' here. I'm talking finish something. A short story. A novel, sure, whatever. I've got a few short stories stashed away that I can edit and then post, since they're not going anywhere


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Editing Update

August 8th 2007 19:10
After 6 hours of long, hard slave labour on it, Moonshadow's Guardian-yes, I changed the title again-is fully edited, spell-checked, and ran through. All that's left to do is run my eyes over the chapters and make sure I don't have two thirty-fives or anything like that.

At 65K or thereabouts, it's a rather short novel, but I've never been one to write long books. I'm just revelling in the fact that by the end of the day, a fully edited novel will end up in the hands of my faithful critters, five of whom volunteered for the duty


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Schedule

August 8th 2007 06:53
This is very loose, and it's Canadian time. Here ya go:

Daily-Editing Pains basic update


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Section One: Editing Pains -.-

August 3rd 2007 03:02
For the next few days, my posts are going to be introducing various sections on my blog. The first and foremost is Editing Pains.

Once I'm done introducing the sections, Editing Pains will be where I give daily-or every other day-updates on my editing progress with my novel, Moonshadow. Or whatever I'm editing at the time


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