And what is this all about? A correction on a post from a year ago. Thank goodness a reader brought it to my attention. I typed Obama when I meant to type Osama -- ouch!!
And now back to our regular programing:
Have had four readers on The Manuscript. All are published writers and all commented on my chapter one. It is devastating to discover that I write fiction as badly as I seem to.
In an attempt to correct the error of my ways - please excuse the cliche`, I am going to rewrie each chapter as a short story and see if I can create a dramatic arc. If I limit myself to a certain number of words, let's say six thousand and make each story a complete entity unto itself, I may be more successful - however, there is the fact that I have yet to get a short story published either. And I've sent many off. No telling if this will improve the interest level of the story.
Nonetheless, I cannot quite see myself rewriting the chapters and in the midst of such an endeavor giving up all my 'darlings'. I have many!
BTW, the picture in today's blog entry is of the Flaxton Clean Up Day, last Saturday. Let the cleaning of the community serve as a metaphor for my clean up my writing life.