Five Year Writing Goal
I’m taking part in Misha and Beth’s Five Year Project and my five-year goal is to write a novel and get it published. This is my monthly recap on how I’m doing.
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Author: Ruth Livingstone
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Five Year Writing Goal: Beta readers
I am very grateful for all the comments on my first draft. I have let this feedback bubble away in my brain. Next week I will sit down and begin to make amendments.
Five Year Writing Goal
I’m taking part in Misha and Beth’s Five Year Project and my five-year goal is to write a novel and get it published. This is my monthly recap on how I’m doing.
First step: write the first draft. Tick!
Second step: edit the first draft. Tick! Now I have a second draft.
Third step: find beta-readers. Tick!
Fourth step: write third draft. About to begin.
Six Word Memoir
My micro-flash memoir was featured on the Six Word site. A small success but, still, a success.
Let’s celebrate the small successes!
I’ve been so bound up in the editing of my Tang Dynasty novel , I have hardly done anything else since the New Year. And both my blog posting and my short story writing have dried up completely.
But recently my micro-flash memoir was featured on the Six Word site. A small success but, still, a success.
My 6 word memoir is here and, don’t worry, it won’t take long to read. It’s only six words, dammit.
5 Year Writing Goal: end of year 2013
So now I have a very, well edited first 300 words and a reasonably well-edited 10,000 words. Only 78,000 more to go!
Five Year Writing Goal
I’m taking part in Misha and Beth’s Five Year Project and my five-year goal is to write a novel and get it published. This is both my monthly and my end-of-the-year recap on how I’m doing.
First step: write the first draft. Tick!
Second step: edit the first draft – in progress.
Continue reading “5 Year Writing Goal: end of year 2013”
Historical Fiction – pitfalls
Do you know the feeling when you suddenly realise you have made a horrible mistake? And does this sometimes hit you in the middle of the night? Well, that happened to me during the early hours of this morning.
I am working through the second draft of my novel, The Reluctant Scribe, set in 7th century China and the Tang Dynasty. There is a scene where I write “eight of us stood in our line on the marble step”, and another line goes “I followed the Dean who led me across the marble“, and another -“I shuffled from foot to foot, sliding my toes across the marble tiles”. I am sure there are other mentions of marble if I continue looking…
But here is the problem:
The Tang used mud brick and wood in their buildings.
They did not use stone or marble.
Arrrrhhhh.
And here is the solution:
I am going to have to run a word search for every reference to ‘marble’ in my novel, and find a more appropriate replacement.
Thank goodness for technology.
That is, I am sure, only one mistake among many.
Ruth Livingstone 