There are so many good books out there to choose from in Middle Grade and YA fantasy. Here's what I'm reading or just finished. Dragon Spear, the third book in the Dragon Slippers series by Jessica Day George is a great book I'd recommend for kids. I'm in the middle of it now. The whole series has lots of dragons, lots of action, and a great female protagonist. My oldest daughter loved the series and she got me hooked on them.
For a bit of an older crowd, I'm slowly making my way through the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan and just finished book seven, Crown of Swords. I'm hoping to get through as many books as I can before the last one in the series comes out at the end of this year. A local Utah author, Brandon Sanderson, is finishing the great work that Robert Jordan started all those years ago. What are you currently reading?
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Triage Editing
What's triage editing? According to Dave Wolverton/Dave Farland who taught an excellent workshop on editing at this year's Life, the Universe, and Everything (LTUE) Science Fiction and Fantasy writing conference this past February at BYU, it's the first stage of editing your rough draft and that's what I'm currently doing to my book. This is the time I go back over each scene and make the necessary large adjustments many times with a hacksaw and lots of gauze. Dave says he goes over a draft at least six times, for different reasons each time, to get things where they need to be. I expect that's what I'll be doing to polish up this current piece. Wherever you are at in your current WIP, keep it up and don't give up. Hack those adverbs. Strike down that dreaded passive voice. Make your manuscript shine.
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