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Posts Tagged ‘Quality Story’

Why I Am Still, A Year Later, Editing My Novel

October 29, 2012 Mathias 2 comments

Every day I get asked the same question, “Why are you still editing that novel of yours?”

I don’t think the answer is that complicated.  I simply want to produce a quality story in the end.  And, while I and others who have read Under the Darkened Moon think that the story is good, I personally don’t think it is good enough quite yet.  Although, I do think it is quickly getting there.

For me, there is no rush.  I’ve been writing off and on for over twenty years.  My very first novel, which I started back in high school, had three years invested into it and never got even half way done.  For Under the Darkened Moon, I opened the file (started writing the story) on June 18th of last year.  It is now October, nearly November a year later.  I could have pushed this work out there six months ago, at least according to some opinions, but certainly not my own.   As one person in my review group said, “It’s already better than 95% of what is self-published on Amazon and other sites like that.” Read more…

Categories: "Dark Moon", Editing, General Things, Getting Published, Novels, Projects, Publishers And Agents, Review Groups, The Writing Process Tags: Amazon, Authors, Contracts, Cutting, Darkened Moon, Diligence, Leap, Literary Agents Publishers, Manuscript, Novel, Patience, People, Quality Story, Rush, Six Months, Twenty Years

The Tickler List Updated

November 22, 2011 Mathias Leave a comment

I spent last night updating my Tickler List last night and added about four new, quality story ideas. When I add to this I usually put down just one or two sentences about my idea for a potential story and use it to draw on for my current or future projects.

If I did not keep a list like this I would never be able to order my thoughts properly or even remember them. When I actually turn the item from the tickler list into an actual project I give it a space on my computer.

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Categories: The Writing Process Tags: Current Projects, Quality Story, Sentences, Story Ideas

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