Reading books can become a hobby without end. There are just too many books one would like to read. The list of potential reads usually grows way too fast and finding time for a return to a book I liked makes it even worse, especially when I juggle it with my own writing and self-made proofreads/edits.
Yet, going back to something I liked has its appeal. The reasons for such a return might vary – and I’ll look into some.
Another month passes and so I am back with a monthly update on my writing progress. With the last update, I mentioned that I’ve edited the first 11 chapters based on early feedback. It’s time to see what was done since then…
This time, I’ll share my thoughts about how I first believed that my writing will progress to how it actually went.
This post is inspired by a guest post by E.R Smo on Ari Meghlen’s blog.
Continue readingThis time, I am looking back at series I’ve abandoned and why I did so, excluding the series abandoned by the writers as this is about my choice to leave them be.
I’ll tell it straight away: November, for the vast majority of years, sucks for hiking. Bordering between the colorful days of October and the winter, it’s usually a poor mess. Even if there’s some color remaining, it’s gloomier than in October. And it usually rains way more. The second half then turns into waiting for the first snow and hoping for a decent timing.
As I go on with further edit passes, some self-done, some based on feedback, I try to not just edit but also observe how my edits change and how I see some things compared to the past.
In this post, I’ll look into one specific type of narrative I encountered: one where the story is told by a narrator retrospectively and interrupted here and there with the narrator’s perspective. While my sample on this kind of narrative is small, it was enough to discover potential issues in that approach – something I’ll talk about now.
