Serg Koren's Blog, page 2

State of Affairs

It's time for an update. It's also almost time for NaNoWriMo.

Creatures, Crime, and Creativity 2021

This is a brain-dump and summary of my 2021 C3 experiences.

My New Release

It’s been a busy and eventful writing week. In a good way.

Changes

This post is tangentially related to writing. It's about balance in life which impacts both your life and writing.

Improving Beats

I've decided on a new format for planning and documenting story beats. This will help me; maybe you as well.

Emotional Writing

I realize I'm not very good at writing emotional scenes, and plan to do something about it.

Back In the Flow

Life moves on and so do I. I’ve had to deal with family issues, putting my mom into a nursing home and taking care of her house. It’s been a stressful and disruptive time for me. But, I resolved the difficult bits and I can now try to get back to normality.

I’ve not written much new apart from free-writing. I have finished editing “The Game Is Afoot”, which I’ll send to anyone that signs up to my new mailing list. 

I’ve also reworked my personal website http://auteureist.com.  All my future posts ...

My BacklogI’ve been busy and life got in the way, but I’ve been able to keep up with my writing and...

My Backlog

I’ve been busy and life got in the way, but I’ve been able to keep up with my writing and editing. I have, however, been remiss in posting on here.

My backlog is growing. This is my current workload:

- Finish my song-based story which has grown beyond a short story.

- Finish transcribing (handwriting to type) my satire.

- Finish editing my noir, and publish it this year.

- Finish editing my thriller.

- Finish transcribing/editing “The Man With All the Cards” short story collection.

- Star...

The Game Is Afoot - 1st Pass EditingI’ve done my first editing pass through the short story that I...

The Game Is Afoot - 1st Pass Editing

I’ve done my first editing pass through the short story that I posted. I addressed all of the issues I laid out in the previous post and am feeling better about the result. All of the plot holes and continuity issues have been resolved and there is more context and cohesion. The story now holds up as a story and is less of a rambling stream-of-consciousness.

There are still issues I want to address. I will do a second read-through and, as before, make a list o...

The Game Is Afoot - Read-through

I’ve done my first read-through of the short story I posted. This is when I just read what I have written and make notes about things that I need to fix, add, delete, and otherwise edit in upcoming passes. 

As part of the read-through I ignore:

Fix Tense
Fix Grammar
Fix Spelling 

and just focus on the story.  I make notes as I read. Here is what I need to fix in upcoming edits organized by scene:

Holmes

Motive
Add early references to strange odor
Add early references to cats
Rework discussion starti...