Notes From a Writing Trip

Recently I got the chance to go away, as I have before, to write. Just write. (Well, maybe there was a wee bit of socializing. But not much.) I have a tight revision deadline for my latest novel, so any time I can grab to work on it, I take. And this time I had a...

Throwing Out The Kitchen

Last week, Hannah said some great things about editing and it got me thinking about my own process. While I commiserate about the tediousness of the line-edit, I actually love editing on a more general level. The first draft is my least favourite part (except for the...

Making sence of editing.

  Ah, Editing. It’s not my favourite. I forget, of course, how much I dislike it, until I have to do it again (and again and again) and then I remember. Ugh. Editing is a bit like childbirth and the finished product, The Book, also a bit like a baby. Someone...