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Not sure what's up with me, but I can't get into gear. I had this problem when I was at the same point in book #2 (35k), and dropped new writing on that book in favour of editing book #1 (I get so eng
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I started typing up book #1's epic hard copy edit yesterday, using an external mouse for the cutting and pasting instead of the little touch pad, and I really can't see any difference between using th
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Kirk (where some very important scenes in book #1 are set), but when we got there, it was all locked up. I figured I had to be proactive, as I'd come a long way to see that place in particular, so I
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The first draft of book #1 was a bit different, as I went through it with highlighters as well, but I think the pencil and post-it method works best for me. The only time I really use my highlighters
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I'm starting the big edit today -- the final final draft of book #1, and the second draft of book #2 -- and to be honest, it's a bit daunting. All those pages. The two books together is about five hun
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I realised that the whole money fiasco just wasn't a good enough reason to throw in the towel, that my mum was going to be fine (she's well and truly on the mend, back to her usual self, nagging and g
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The first draft of book #1 took three months (started 3rd January this year). I thought I was at the final draft when I started submitting it on 24th October, but a month and five agents' rejections l
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Well done! Bet it is a good feeling. And good luck to book #1
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It's actually the sequel to book #1, so it's all sort of resting on poor book #1's shoulders right now. I suppose that's the problem when you have an idea for a series -- if you get nowhere with the f
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You're ahead of me. I'm about 45,000 into book #1, but I have 3 essays to write and don't think the brain will take it. So I'm laying it aside and starting to research book #2.
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Almost everything violent that happens in my books happens "off-stage" as it were- e.g. my main character is attacked in book #1, but after the first blow, the scene cuts out, and th
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If you check out this link it appears that 'who's leading who' is correct, but if you scroll down to reply #13 a certain Ben corrects the headline to 'who's leading whom' (with some emphasis). While I
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I never said that I use 'whom'. In general, I don't. I've just checked, and I didn't use it at all in book #1, and in book #2, used it only twice - both times in dialogue, and both times spoken by the
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I've always had a problem with this ridiculous subject. No person who commits a violent crime is ever fully responsible for their own actions because that bad film/song/book made them do it. I think i
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Because I was editing as I was writing the first draft of book #1 (as I have been with book #2), when I got to the second draft I made a lot of changes -- additions, sections and chapters moving aroun
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Tell you the truth, I got the motive for book #1 from watching Wire In The Blood.
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because that is a really major location in book #1. i phoned the cemeteries service, and they gave me the phone number for the lady who runs the friends of logie group. i spoke to her, and she came o
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hmm... i'm thinking i might send book
#1 off to that... it's nearly finished, and i was going to start sending it off to agents and the like around then anyway... couldn't hurt to enter, could it?
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by positive word of mouth. I;m presently at #148 in the WHSmith's book chart and they are also promoting it in their Buy one get one half price promo. Waterstones are also featuring it in their 3 for