Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! I have one problem left and I’m leaving it in, for my lovely beta readers to weigh in on directly. Partially because I did not want to say there were no problems left. Because there undoubtedly will be: the ones I can’t see. I felt it, at the …
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Reading my SPFBO8 cohort #7, with finishing rant about AI (again), and 19 problems
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Yes it all gets rather confusing now, doesn’t it. SPFBO 9 is now up and running, but I’m still doing my vague reviews from SPFBO 8 and I’m on my 7th book. Voracious reader, me. (Too much internet, too little book is the truth.) Book 7 was better …
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84 Problems
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Don’t panic. I have a towel you can borrow. I have finished my first pass through the manuscript fixing as I go, and to be honest, not even doubling the original tally is a win. I finished a bunch of the original 43 again this weekend, and added …
71 Problems
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Yes, that number has loomed larger. But fear not, many are more like markers than problems, placeholders to remind me where to make consistency fixes, which shall be removed with great joy in large chunks as their time to be resolved arrives. In short, I am making a …
43 Problems
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! So yes, I have 43 problems to solve in my rewrites. 43 questions or comments left to myself in the text. Some are thankfully minor, a note to self to change a sentence, or even a word. (Yes, one word changes can be a nightmare, just let me …
Reading my SPFBO Cohort #6
Hello my friends and the occasional relative! SPFBO 8 is over, its winner revealed here. Congratulations to Small Miracles! A close run contest – check it out for some quality writing and great stories! So I finally finished #6. For me this is head and shoulders the best of the six I have read. It …
The Slaves and The Djinn: Read through update
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! So, it has been a few weeks now since I finished my Ernest Hemingway edit-as-I-go manuscript (digital), and this weekend I sat down and read it in one uninterrupted sitting. I tried VERY hard not to stop and edit, or add comments as I went, but I can’t …
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Why I Write Fantasy: Managing the Disconnect.
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! This is my sixth attempt at writing this column. I'm not saying this is the best, it's just the one I'm willing to share right now. Once I was a boy with shining dreams. Fantasy fiction, of my own making and the stories I enjoyed reading, were an …
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A week of thought and edits
So I went through and edited chapters 28-33 this weekend, re-jigged the ending a bit, got it closer to final. It would do now, but no doubt could be improved. I went back and forth through the last three chapters looking for places to possibly insert a line or two, and ended up not doing …
The Slaves and The Djinn: Final edit-as-I-go draft update?
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! I write this before I have finished my writing for these days off, with Chapters 31 and 32 written, so I am 96.96 recurring% of the way to completion of this edited-as-I-go draft. Cheers Ernest! Still no graphic representation. Except I have not really edited from 29 on, …
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Roderick T. Macdonald 