The hardest part of bringing a book to life isn’t the editing. It’s the removing. It’s cutting the words you laboured over, the sentences you loved, the little turns of phrase you tucked away. It’s looking at your darlings, your clever lines, your beautiful moments, your 'surely this has to stay' sentences, and realizing that … Continue reading Killing my darlings one by one…
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Anyone else?
My brain will happily invent an entire fictional kingdom at 2am but will refuse to come up with the name of a perfectly normal character.
First draft edits…
Quote of the day…
Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.― Ray Bradbury
Quote of the day…
“The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented.”― Milan Kundera
Lanne Garrett 