A long time away

[lawbag]

Jesus, I just noticed Ive not posted here in over a year. Odd when I used to write here at least once a week, I suppose different needs were severed better by Facebook, Twitter and such like

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[evilref]

Welcome back to LiveJournal. :-)

...more editing and revising rather than anything new

My experience of this process is that another human is a far better editor than we can ever be. My editor has done a sterling job -- largely clarifying the parts of my story that were clear enough to me but would have left the poor reader struggling.

Are you planning to market it? And if so, how?

[lawbag]

My most creative point in the book was when I has a fellow writer/editor going through my work making suggestions an revisions and asking the obvious questions such as, why is this character doing this or that, why their motives are ( I've gotten this already worked out but it's good to be questioned on it) and whilst I can visualise a scene easily, finding the right words to convey the venue and it's mood was helped by this 2nd pair of critical eyes. I do intend to publish it one day.

[evilref]

That was more or less my experience

[lawbag]

Thanks for the good advice. I will look to join a writers club, no matter how informal. I'm acutely aware that there is only room in some ones life for one passion, and I'd rather write and role-play badly than to focus on just one or the other.

[evilref]

I found when looking for a writing group that it took two or three goes to get one that fitted my own needs. They're all AWA type around here (Amhert Writers and Artists' Method) but some are about confidence-building for amateur writers -- great if you need encouragement to write -- while others are more about mentoring writers into a professional career.

But I'm sure you'll have many more to choose from than I have in rural Connaught.