I'm 1/3 way through the story and I've managed to trim out 53 pages so far. So I'm falling behind. But, the last ten chapters have the most potential for trimming, being the 10 largest chapters. I'm hoping any way. Looks like I'll have to make at least one more pass through to get it properly trimmed, though. This is proving harder than I ( Read more... )

My UF novel "Black Heart" is 600 pages. Time to cut 200 of those. I've gotten feedback/critiques. Now it's crunch time. Good-bye 1/3 of my novel.

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21 days into the 30 days of the National Novel Writing Month 2008, I have achieved victory. Yes, 70,000 words of goodness. Okay, I used a few of the words more than once. All right several....most of the words multiple times ( Read more... )

I'm still watching the the show, and I've started to read the first novel of the series on which the HBO series is based. I have to say, the TV series has "sexed" up the story, especially with Jason's character. I'm halfway through the book, which is only a little ahead of the TV storyline. So a full 26 episode series will cover a couple of the ( Read more... )