Sometimes I tell myself these things when I’m writing something new, but usually it’s when I’m revising that I really have to pay heed to them. Some people might call these tips or rules for writing — I would say they are more like self-admonishments. The order below is roughly the frequency, highest to lowest, …
It was not quite a year ago that I took a geology field trip run by my friend Tom to Yosemite and the Eastern Sierra. At the time I was on my second round of revisions to the ending of M&S, and some of the mountains and geology from that trip really played into the writing of the last few chapters. Below are a few of the pictures I took.
Half Dome and Yosemite Valley from atop Sentinel Dome
Tenaya Lake as seen from Olmstead Point
View eastward en route to Tioga Pass
View of the Minarets
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September 8, 2013
Today I cut over 3000 words. Ouch. It would hurt more if it had been good stuff that just didn’t fit, but it was pretty much crap. I also relearned that if none of the changes I make to a bad sentence improve it, I probably don’t need the sentence. The good side to this …
Monday September 2, 2013 — 8:28 AM
I found out last Friday that the UK rights have been acquired by Headline Publishing Group (a division of Hachette). They will be publishing at the same time, though likely with a different cover, which is still in the works. Here’s a link to their site. It’s very exciting!
http://www.hachette.co.uk/books/detail.page?isbn=9781472214843