Maggie Thom's Blog - Posts Tagged "editing"

I have to say I've been writing my whole life but up until about a year ago, that's really all I was doing was writing, really for myself. I mean I did submit some stories to contests, a few novels to traditional publishers but for the most part I just wrote. There was no real sense of urgency, no worry about getting the story done. I'd write when I had free time, more often than not that was with pen to paper because usually I was out chasing or er, driving my kids around to activities and sports. So then I'd have to type up what I'd written. It tended to take quite a bit of time. No big deal because then it also took quite a bit of time to get up the nerve to do the homework and then to send out a query letter to a publisher.

There weren't really any timelines or deadlines. Well now that I'm published that has all changed.

I have self-imposed deadlines. Mainly because I do love writing and the ideas are coming but also because my fans are asking when is the next book coming out. Guess what? Now, I find it difficult to write. Okay that's not true, it's not difficult to write it's difficult to sit my butt in the chair and write my story. With Deceitful Truths it took a few months of next to no writing on it, before...
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I am sad but don't get teary-eyed on me, it's just that my printer has died. And it's only seven. I guess that's pretty old in the printer world, a hundred or so, maybe? I really can't complain it has printed, I'm sure, at least ten thousand or more pages. Mostly manuscripts, short stories, ideas that I'd run off and take with me to read over, rewrite and edit. Then I'd type all that new stuff in and then print it again. It worked great because every time I had to sit and wait for my kids to finish an activity or a practice for sports - of course I watched, between paragraphs or pages, it depended, sometimes maybe even chapters - I'd be able to have something to do. I also ran a business a few years ago, empowering women to step into their dream, so I printed off many pictures, manuals, training plans, radio show outlines, presentations and so much more.

And for the last year it has been my true companion in helping me get my two novels, Captured Lies and Tainted Waters, edited, rewritten, completed and finally published. I had also used it to make bookmarks, pictures and many other items to help advertise my two books. Sadly though, now that I am at the point of rewriting and editing my third novel, Deceitful Truths, it just didn't have in it to print it for me so that I could have a hard copy to read. I've discovered that I still like to print off my manuscripts and go through and make changes on the paper. I do lots on the computer but I find it helps me to see and read my book differently. Not sure why...

Anyway my printer, a Canon, which I truly loved and felt it was an amazing printer has gone to printer heaven. Well actually the recycling bin is where it will be heading to... but don't tell it that...
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