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How You Write a Synopsis
First you spend an entire day writing (and rewriting) three hundred words. Then, just at the point where you’re going crazy and starting to see things in the text that aren’t there you ask someone else to read it. Hopefully they will say something nice like, I’d read that. Hopefully they won’t say things like, […]
These Are the Things a Second Draft is Made of…
May 7, 2013 by Kandace Mavrick
Sometimes the second draft is where I go back in and make the intention of it clear from the mess of words I threw at the page the first time. Sometimes I write things and I have no idea what I’m doing and the second draft is me finding something in the text I had […]
Redrafting Shouldn’t Feel So Much Like Wanting to Hit Past Me Up the Back of the Head
April 30, 2013 by Kandace Mavrick
Screw passive aggressive, my notes to self have ramped up to aggressive aggressive. My favourite piece of advice in my notes today? Cut this. Or change it to something… better. On the… let’s call it the upside I’ve cut around ten percent of the chapters I’ve edited so far. So that’s nice. And odd. But […]
Sometimes You Gotta Have a Little Faith. Sometimes it’s Better to Just Stay Home.
April 22, 2013 by Kandace Mavrick
This is for my mother. Because of reasons. (This is also how I imagine wizards playing with the limits of their power.)
You Can’t Get Scurvy if You Drink This Much Juice
April 18, 2013 by Kandace Mavrick
I hate being interrupted when I’m writing. And okay, I’m writing all the time at the moment. And I do enjoy spending time with my friends. But I was halfway through punching someone when I was dragged away from my laptop last night so I was stuck in this weird sort of limbo place where […]
I Wonder What Happens Next
April 10, 2013 by Kandace Mavrick
Me: Tomorrow’s Monday! Rick: (flatly) I love you, bear. Me: I shouldn’t say that with so much glee? Rick: Yeah. It’s possible that I was a little more than reasonably excited about getting back to work this week. But come on, I knew it was going to be fun. I’ve been running through the last […]
Complete First Draft = Celebratory Jello Shots and Dancing on the Table
April 4, 2013 by Kandace Mavrick
So I’m just now realising that I didn’t tell you I finished the book. I finished the book!* What now, you ask? Basking in the glory of the finished work? Anxiety spiral about whether it’s good enough? Celebratory jello shots and dancing on the table? The last one, definitely. Beyond that I decided to take […]
The Violent Ecstasy of the End Point
March 28, 2013 by Kandace Mavrick
I am going through the end of the book so fast it’s a little disturbing. Partly because holding it all my head is starting to make me feel like I’ve got a zoetrope in there, but also because I’m so focused on it I’m not really connecting properly with the real world. Like, okay — […]
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Paul McLaughlan
May 16, 2013 by Kandace Mavrick
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