![]() ![]() All that matters is that nothing helped, until one day. I took workshops and reaped too many tips to list. I thought it worked, it worked in my head, but based on a few shrewd readers it didn’t work in theirs.ĭuring that year–fighting the wicked temptation to tweak pages, chapters and plots–I turned my attention to books on rewriting, in search of a magic key to unlock my manuscript and turn it into a novel, the kind people wanted to read. While that’s true, the real reason was, the story didn’t work. Why? Because, as I told others in my most knowledgeable author voice, “A writer needs distance from their material before editing and rewriting.” ![]() In 2011,I embarked on one of the harshest undertakings I placed what I thought was the final draft of my novel in a drawer for one year.
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