Anonymous asked: No updates lately? Are you all blogged out? When can we read your novel?
Hugs,
GQ
I’ve been editing the novel Mr. Quintice - only on the very most basic level however. I have been pulling out the rotten teeth mistakes and flossing between the grammars.
It is a longer process than I though. At the time of doing #NaNoWriMo I thought it would be a case of whipping through afterwards and picking out mistakes. Sadly this cannot be done at speed.
There are also temptations. The temptation of editing and editing, hard. I always want to scurry down the path of description when something isn’t right - prick open a literary artery and ooze thick pretentious purple prose treacle all over the keyboard - but I have resisted pretty well so far.
There is also the temptation for large scale structure rearrangement. I have urges to move whole chunks of the text back and forth. Again, I resist, but only just.
Here is the plan:
1. Finish the spell-checking and grammar-fixing this evening
2. Print the bastard (double spaced of course)
3. Find somewhere to get it bound tomorrow
4. Edit at leisure with a red & a black pen.
Point 4 will mostly consist of crossing bits out and adding ideas/suggesting movements. I expect to see notes on it like “make this interesting”, “explain this” and “could this be sexier?”
Can you read it? Of course you can’t, we both know you’re completely illiterate.
