In yesterday’s post I talked about my campaign to pare down my verbiage. And with all that being said, I have to admit that I am still in awe of writers who can create lush verbal landscapes with sweeping streams of adjectives and broad brush strokes of words. My writing seems more than a little stark by comparison and I’m never sure if I’ve cut too much verbiage when all is said and done.
Roz over at Nail Your Novel has a great post on laser editing.
How focused/ruthless are you in your editing? Do you prefer a pared down style of writing or a more expansive style of storytelling? Cormac McCarthy or Diana Gabaldon?
Showing posts with label focus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label focus. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Fear and focus
I'm a disciplined, dedicated person. I know what I have to do, and I know what I have to do to get it done.
I subscribe more to the 'sit down and figure it out then write' theory than I do to a muse. I subscribe to the theory that writer's block is really just fear. Fear of failure. Fear of success. I have them both in spades and sometimes they just paralyze me.
And as I'm trying to be more disciplined in my writing, do more writing on a more regular basis, I've ping-ponged between my fears.
I think I can write. Short stories and novels. I have two novels that are WIPs and one completed novel that could be rewritten, if I felt up to the heavy lifting, into something I think would be marketable. I have tons of bits and pieces that could be fitted into a coherent something.
Whatever comes though, I need to focus.
How about you? Discipline or muse? Biggest fear in writing? How do you focus?
I subscribe more to the 'sit down and figure it out then write' theory than I do to a muse. I subscribe to the theory that writer's block is really just fear. Fear of failure. Fear of success. I have them both in spades and sometimes they just paralyze me.
And as I'm trying to be more disciplined in my writing, do more writing on a more regular basis, I've ping-ponged between my fears.
I think I can write. Short stories and novels. I have two novels that are WIPs and one completed novel that could be rewritten, if I felt up to the heavy lifting, into something I think would be marketable. I have tons of bits and pieces that could be fitted into a coherent something.
Whatever comes though, I need to focus.
How about you? Discipline or muse? Biggest fear in writing? How do you focus?
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