by Diana Renn | Mar 25, 2013 | revision, writing process
Today my 5-year-old drew this picture for me on a white board: “They look startled because they’re about to be erased,” he explained.My son is normally quite sensitive about anything dealing with finality. Deflated balloons, dead flies on a...
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 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 I.
by Diana Renn | Feb 18, 2011 | revision, The Frame Game, word count
So I’m gearing up to revise my novel (THE FRAME GAME, the one to be published). I have been asked, among other things, to cut the word count by quite a bit. I recognize I have a tendency to over-complicate, so I’m immensely grateful for editorial advice at...
