Tuesday, April 20, 2010

It's All About You



So I realize you're probably sick of hearing about editorial revisions, because really, one can only talk about changing verbs from present to past tense so many times before it becomes completely yawn-worthy. So let's switch the tables and talk about YOU for a change. How's your writing going? Anything my crack team of intrepid blog readers can help you with? (But not my intrepid team of cracked blog readers, because trust me, you don't want their advice.)

Free advice you probably didn't want in the first place. And pictures of bathtubs with writing all over them. Yep, it's just an average day in Carrieland.

18 comments:

Stina said...

For a moment I'd thought I had already commented on your blog because another blogger had to same pictures on their post. Okay, I think my head's going to explode from reading too many blogs first thing in the morning. ;)

My edits are going amazingly well . . . at least until my CP/beta readers tell me otherwise.

Stina said...

Yep, my brain exploded. I forgot to edit my comment first. Oh well. Time to shove the remaining pieces of brain back into my head. :)

Scillius Maximus said...

Query - What happens if your on both teams?

Claire Dawn said...

I'm in edits too. Major edits, as I like to call the first edit where you're looking at continuity and stuff.

So nothing of excitement here.

Unknown said...

I'm revising for a conference this weekend and am a little sick of revisions at this point - help!

Lindsay said...

I'm in revisions too. I keep wondering if I'm just addicted to editing so I don't have to send the sucker out.lol.

Valerie Kemp said...

I'm revising and trying to get my query letter ready to go. Query letters are 1000 times harder than writing a book. OMG.

Carolyn V. said...

I have to revise today. I should be excited for it. But...

Okay, Carrie (or anyone else), what kind of treats do you eat when you revise? I'm trying to cut down on the munchies when I write, but I can't!!! They are so so good.

Tere Kirkland said...

Had a great comment, but that was completely blown out of my head by my word verification:

sperm

Yes, I am ten years old.

Carrie Harris said...

I crave salty and starchy treats when I revise, Carolyn. I could seriously make a whole pot of mashed potatoes. And eat it.

And now I'm hungry.

Cate Gardner said...

How did you get a picture of the inside of my head???

PJ Hoover said...

Your blog is never yawn worthy. Never. And I could talk about changing verbs ad nausaeum.

Kathy McCullough said...

It just seems like it's so sloooow. I have to write lots of new scenes and I worry they're all going to end up icky rough draft looking, since I don't have time to polish AT ALL to make the deadline. Also, I'm tired of hearing myself complain. :0

Shannon O'Donnell said...

Ha ha ha. I posted that same picture yesterday! Great minds... :-)

Unknown said...

I'm just starting to claw my way out of website building hell and getting back to work on the book of budget and time saver tips/cookbook. I cannot wait to get back to rewriting my fiction. It's so much easier!

I'm beginning to rue the day I decided to do a nonfiction book.

Suzanne Casamento said...

Ohhhh...that image made me laugh out loud. I think I've been in that tub.

Hope your reverbsions go by fast!

David F. Weisman said...

I'm mostly critiquing other people on various workshops in exchange for their critiques. The rewrite starts in a month or so, although the last chapters of my manuscript won't be critiqued yet.

C. Michael Fontes said...

I have a lot to read and critique for my group, so my writing has been slow going. I am almost finished with the first act, but have been there for a month or more.

During one of my critiques, something was pointed out that made me HAVE to revise more than half of the first act, so I have been stuck in revision mode, even though I am not done with the first draft :(