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A Million Ways To Write A Single Thought – And How To Go CRAZY Over It!

July 2, 2012 Mathias 1 comment

If you are a writer, you have no doubt stared down a sentence or two while trying to wrangle out the perfect way to say what you want to say.  And, no doubt, you have engaged in pitched battle with said sentence, at times feeling like you would loose to it.

Sadly, we authors are a fickle lot.  Most of us strive for what we perceive as perfection rather than just what works.  That’s not always a bad thing, except when good enough is already staring us straight in the face and we just won’t accept it.  Then we spend hours, perhaps even days trying to improve on what is already good.

I recently had this experience while editing my novel, Under the Darkened Moon.  In once scene, the main character, Kyel, is in pitched combat of his own and I just didn’t like this one sentence: Read more…

Categories: "Dark Moon", Editing, Good Stuff, Novels, Projects, The Writing Process Tags: Authors, Darkened Moon, Face, Kicker, Lot, Million Ways, No Doubt, Novel, Pitched Battle

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