Andrew Wille

I have had to do major trimming in the past, Raine, and actually found it quite liberating once I had got into the right frame of mind.

Hi @raine. I feel your pain! Is that comment about trimming one that you have only just received? If so, then it might need a little time to digest. Is it a change that you are, in principle, in accord with? Do you think it’s a case of losing some scenes / a subplot line, or more a case of just tightening everything and trimming words throughout?…[Read more]

Oh wow, @daedalus, that’s a HUGE achievement. Congratulations on getting that whole draft done. SlowMo editing. I like it. And the shorts too.

Good stuff, @raine! I sometimes refer to those kinds of tasks as “clearing the decks” work. Like, getting that pesky stuff done so that I have a clear run of time in which to get my head down. “Clearing the decks” work is important work, not procrastination, because it’s a means to the end of getting the creative work done successfully. AT least,…[Read more]

Ooh, look at this! The chair by the window has my name on it.

This is brilliant @raine 😊 I mosied into the Den wondering if I should set up a SloMo thread but your brilliant self had already taken care of it. After a frenetic NaNo I’m going to scale my daily word count target back a bit and take more time for actual fun. I now have to schedule fun or I forget! So I’d like to finish my NaNo novel and write a…[Read more]

I have an editorial read-through booked for the end of January so my Slo-Mo aim is to rewrite a couple of chapters to increase the stakes and generally tighten up.