Braindead Dairy #14: WTF Did I Write?

I trod on my glasses, lost holidays at work, and just sliced my thumb cutting onions, but it doesn’t matter because I am doing what I always do on a Monday evening – writing about where I’m up to with Legend of Simidae.

A milestone has been reached – the re-edit of book 1 is complete! Yes, there’s much more editing to be done, but knowing I have ironed out lots of creases is like receiving a brain massage. It’s a sight better than it was which reminds me of the most important aspect of any kind of writing – IT HAS TO BE GOOD – whether you intend to catch the eye of a publishing house or purely to know it’s close to your best effort.

Quality is King.

And so it’s onto book two, the so-called rickety bridge to the finale, and right away I can tell there’s gonna to be all kinds of crap that will needs binning. It’s funny looking back at well-structured sentences, wondering what kind of point you were trying to make, that now come across as needless waffle – but that’s the beauty of editing! Death to bullshit! 

You may sometimes feel the need to try to make it a more epic/poetic because it’s the start of a new book, but you must ask yourself is it necessary, because you don’t want your reader to start frowning on the first page. Especially at the start of a book each sentence should act like a aperitif, charming them towards the main, not overblown passages that go down like a bucket of oatmeal.

You can quote me on that.