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In an effort to make add more “writing-related” posts to this blog, I need your help.

There are a lot of things I will be able to discuss once I sell a book or two, but until that happens, I can’t really go into the detailed mechanics behind process in regards to WIPs or books on submission or any other facet for that matter. And although I have a great post coming on query writing, it won’t be posted until something else happens first.

I can, however, talk about things at a high-level–but I’m kind of stuck on what to actually discuss.

And that’s where you come in.

Is there anything you’re interested in me talking about? From process to idea-harvesting to storming through a first draft?

If there is, then let me know. Drop me a comment or email and I’ll work it into an upcoming blog post.

And if I don’t get any comments, well then, I guess I’ll just be quiet. (Ha!)

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Besides a stint of Left 4 Dead 2 on Tuesday night (zomgZOMBIESdiediedie), I’ve been consumed with revisions on one of my larger projects, codename: Fever. These are good revisions, polish revisions, which means no hair pulling or the reorganizing scenes. Just plucking a word here, moving a line there, tightening and cutting off the fat. Removing the superfluous.

Which has been fun. It has given me a chance to dive back in and get reacquainted with my characters. It’s also given me a chance to refocus. For a while I had been distracted by life and reality and numerous other things. My agent needs the revisions done sooner rather than later, which is great–it gives me a hard and fast deadline to work towards, which I thrive in. It allows me to easily cut out the distractions as well.

I even carry my iBook around in hopes of getting a moment to edit. Like last night. I had to pick up my daughter from her gymnastics. I got there early and had a few minutes to wait, so I popped open my iBook and revised by the dashboard light. I only got in about 15 minutes, but it was 15 minutes I wouldn’t have had otherwise.

Today is going to be more of the same until I get these revisions done–hopefully wrapping them up next week.

And then it will be on to project: Violet once again.

Revision By The Dashboard Light -- yeah, that's how I roll.

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