Miranda Davis
Don't be afraid, try.
Do your best. Edit mercilessly.
(I won't be editing this much, so my apologies if it's too much blab.)
Be humble and always realize it can be better. That makes critical reviews helpful and thought provoking rather than soul crushing. (I'm planning to re-edit #2 after I finish #3. And I keep tweaking #1.)
If you decide to self-publish, you can fix things. I have many times.
Check out Scrivener software. You will love it. LOVE IT. It's $49, too.
And always, always back up your work, even if you just slap the latest into a flash drive.
Another writer told me she likes to surprise herself by creating difficult situations for her characters, really jolt them, and I can see how that keeps her going. (She lost an entire draft, no back-up of her first novel!) I try to understand an uncomfortable situation (I've created) better and better, from each person's perspective. While doing that, I learn all sorts of things about the folks involved and that keeps me going. I'm trying to have more plot in the current story, so it's a challenge. I edit continually, hundreds of drafts, line by line revisions with painstaking pauses for research to make sure what I'm considering is plausible, if not likely. ANd I ask a few trusted beta readers to give it a go.
Do your best. Edit mercilessly.
(I won't be editing this much, so my apologies if it's too much blab.)
Be humble and always realize it can be better. That makes critical reviews helpful and thought provoking rather than soul crushing. (I'm planning to re-edit #2 after I finish #3. And I keep tweaking #1.)
If you decide to self-publish, you can fix things. I have many times.
Check out Scrivener software. You will love it. LOVE IT. It's $49, too.
And always, always back up your work, even if you just slap the latest into a flash drive.
Another writer told me she likes to surprise herself by creating difficult situations for her characters, really jolt them, and I can see how that keeps her going. (She lost an entire draft, no back-up of her first novel!) I try to understand an uncomfortable situation (I've created) better and better, from each person's perspective. While doing that, I learn all sorts of things about the folks involved and that keeps me going. I'm trying to have more plot in the current story, so it's a challenge. I edit continually, hundreds of drafts, line by line revisions with painstaking pauses for research to make sure what I'm considering is plausible, if not likely. ANd I ask a few trusted beta readers to give it a go.
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Denise Hendrickx
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Miranda Davis:
Dear Miranda, I have enjoyed the reading of the 2 first books of the serie. But where are the 2 last ones ? No imagination anymore ? Are the refusing to appear in a novel ? Or is your situation (health, love, family) in dire straits ? I really regret the 2 missing heroes but thanks for the 2 first ones. Denise, a European avid reader
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