by DianneSalerni | Jul 30, 2012 | revision
I’m almost halfway through Draft #2 of GRUNSDAY now, and I’m not even that worried about the pothole I mentioned last week. I think it’s much improved, and I’ll test its bumpiness when I read through the entire draft. I’ve dropped...
by DianneSalerni | Jul 27, 2012 | revision, WIP, writing
Via Wikimedia CommonsI know where the weak areas are in my WIP. I saw them in the first draft, and I struggled with them again when I wrote an outline for Draft 2.Since I started revisions last weekend, I’ve already deviated from the Draft 2 outline, because I...
by DianneSalerni | Jul 25, 2012 | Uncategorized
If you haven’t already read the post by Roni Loren about a lawsuit over a picture she used on her blog, please do. Yes, the chances of getting sued over an image you copied from Google images is pretty small, but I was struck by Roni’s comment: “It was a lot of...
by DianneSalerni | Jul 20, 2012 | fish, writing
It’s O’Dark Thirty in the Salerni house, and eight people are stumbling around, grabbing a bite to eat and mumbling at each other with as much civility as we can muster for this ungodly time of day. Then my niece, Olivia, puts on her fishing hat and gives me a big...
by DianneSalerni | Jul 18, 2012 | outline, WIP
Now that I have finished the first draft of my WIP, I’m ready to start outlining it.I’ve never understood how writers outline their stories before writing them. Sure, I could make up an outline before writing the draft, but my characters won’t feel any...
