Dude, Where's My Muse?
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Editing
Working on editing/revising one of my manuscripts right now. Taking a break from working on the cover because I can't get the font right. All the fonts I like don't look good or readable as a thumbnail, and the ones that do look okay, I don't like. Hoping I find one somewhere that's readable and I really like.
Taking a workshop on editing this month. We're going through the manuscript looking for words we can cut. I started with 423 'look'. I'm down to 264 at the moment and would like to nudge that number down some more. The only bad thing is some of the words we're looking for (ie could and seem) I can't seem to come up with rewrites for, so the number of them in the manuscript haven't dropped that much yet. I've also read over certain chapters so many times I can quote the dialogue. Not sure if that's a good thing, or not. :o)
I'm still trying to find an old website I had bookmarked. It was geared to writers and had lists of alternate words for things like look, said, etc. Thinking I may have lost it when I put in the new hard drive. Thought I'd printed out the info, but I don't see it in my revisions folder. If you know what I'm talking about and remember the link, please feel free to share! :o)
Friday, December 16, 2011
Progress
Finally making some good progress this week. Well, month actually. I've added about 30,000 words to the revision of one manuscript (the old original version was pretty short) and if I can get through the really emotional scenes this weekend, I can print it out and spend next week revising on a hard copy. Always fun to see your mistakes glaring up at you in print. :)
I bought the cover image for the story as well tonight. I've spent about a month trying to find an image that fit. I thought I found a few in the last couple weeks, but the hair on the one girl just kept bugging me and there was no way to fix it, so I crossed that one off the list. Then the two premade covers came off the list, one someone else was already using the image in the last while and the other didn't go over so well with a few people I showed it to. Finally last night I stumbled onto the perfect shot, and grabbed it tonight. Once I figure out the lettering issue, it'll be all set to go. Hopefully be able to post it to the website by Christmas.
In other good news, my promo postcards I ordered for myself finally showed up today. Have to say they look awesome. So happy with them. At least they got here before Xmas as I'm sending a couple to my grandma and great aunt and uncle so they can see what the covers look like since they don't have computers. Anxious to hear what they think.
I bought the cover image for the story as well tonight. I've spent about a month trying to find an image that fit. I thought I found a few in the last couple weeks, but the hair on the one girl just kept bugging me and there was no way to fix it, so I crossed that one off the list. Then the two premade covers came off the list, one someone else was already using the image in the last while and the other didn't go over so well with a few people I showed it to. Finally last night I stumbled onto the perfect shot, and grabbed it tonight. Once I figure out the lettering issue, it'll be all set to go. Hopefully be able to post it to the website by Christmas.
In other good news, my promo postcards I ordered for myself finally showed up today. Have to say they look awesome. So happy with them. At least they got here before Xmas as I'm sending a couple to my grandma and great aunt and uncle so they can see what the covers look like since they don't have computers. Anxious to hear what they think.
