Comments on: A Few More Answers On Self-Editing

By: Daan Van der Merwe

Daan Van der Merwe — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:04:29 +0000

In deed. Exciting, depressing, stimulating, joyful, challenging, rewarding and satisfying.

Fiction is fun, but for raw entertainment, nobody can match those whacky politicians.*

*Extract from E-zine: Volume 2 Number 8, issued on 8 November 2006. Copyright Randall Ingermanson, 2006.

By: Karla

Karla — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:29:21 +0000

That is good advice from Renni. It’s also comforting to know that editors need editors, too!

By: Sheila Deeth

Sheila Deeth — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:14:26 +0000

Just wanted to share my delight at completing the second draft of my novel while reading, and trying to implement, various bits of self-editing advice. Many thanks for the encouragement.

I wrote my first novel, editing every piece as I went, and stitched the second together from lots of smaller pieces, waiting till the end to edit. Not sure which process worked better for me - maybe it’s a question of doing what works at the time.

By: Holly

Holly — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 22:48:27 +0000

I’ll celebrate with you, Sheila! Nothing like the feeling of another draft under your feet!

By: Camille

Camille — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 18:31:17 +0000

If you missed it, Randy was featured on Novel Journey Saturday. Here’s the link to Beating the Time Monster.

http://noveljourney.blogspot.com/2007/11/beating-time-monster.html

By: Donna

Donna — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:19:46 +0000

Thanks for the advice. It’s hard not to try to follow what works for others while I’m figuring out how best for me to do it. Right now I’m handwriting my first chapter and it’s working well. I find myself not looking back much on what I’ve written. It’s also making it so I can’t consider revising much until I type it into the puter. I’m used to doing short stories and am still developing my way of doing a novel. Again, thanks!

I’m all for celebrating too! Count me in.