by Diana Renn | Aug 22, 2011 | CENTRUM, cover art, line edits, revising, revisions, work life balance
I’ve been absent from the blog these past few weeks, but for good reasons, I swear. Mainly, I was finishing up line edits/final revisions to my novel. These revisions coincided with yet another family vacation. Fortunately, this one was a visit to family in...
by Diana Renn | Jul 5, 2011 | revising, revision, work life balance
Okay, so I have this bad track record of working on vacations. I thought I had reformed after a trip to New Mexico several years ago, when I literally chased a FedEx van to get a delivery from a publisher in a remote mountain village. I started traveling without my...
by Diana Renn | Apr 30, 2011 | revising, revision
I’m still buried in revisions, and am working overtime today (whatever “overtime” means for writers) so I can take tomorrow off and attend Grub Street’s Muse and the Marketplace conference here in Boston. But as promised, here are some devices...
by Diana Renn | Apr 22, 2011 | art and life, revising
Occasionally, art and life collide. Freaky coincidences happen. Sometimes that’s cool. But not when it involves a rock flying into your house at 2 am. Which is almost exactly what happens to some characters in the novel I’m busy revising. And which is...
by Diana Renn | Apr 21, 2011 | revising, revision
I’m revising, revising, revising. I’ll be back next week with three handy and low-tech revision tips that so far seem to be working. Meanwhile, here’s a picture of my desk. It’s under there somewhere. So am...
by Diana Renn | Apr 15, 2011 | revising
My writing metaphors frequently shift, but I find it’s always useful to have a metaphor, something to visualize. Some days it’s construction. I’m building a house, or wiring it, or setting up scaffolding, or simply running through the framework with...
