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Into the Blank Page: EDITING ON PAPER

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Monday, 25 July 2011. I forgot how good it is to edit on paper! I just printed the novel out for the first time in at least six months -got myself a luminous pink biro and covered the novel with pink ink. I've cut out swathes of beautiful description, phrases I loved and it feels great! Two of the three agents who saw the complete MS of this novel have rejected it, one with detailed comments. The third, thank goodness, hasn't read it yet. I asked her to wait to read a new version and she said yes. My edi...

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Into the Blank Page: NOT WRITING

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Monday, 4 June 2012. It's a long time since I did any proper writing. I've been researching. Properly. Not merely dipping into the odd (odd) book, but devouring books, filling actual blank pages with miles of spider scrawl. For the fifth novel in the series. Lunacy! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Life as a writer. Useful structures for writers. BLOGS I LOVE: ALLY BROSH. HOW TO CREATE METAPHORS. I'M SO AWESOME I'M JEALOUS OF MYSELF. WEIRD PLACES FOR STORIES. BETTER DESCRIPTION FOR STORIES. 160;I just...

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Into the Blank Page: What the Agent Said

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Sunday, 6 July 2014. What the Agent Said. So this is what the agent said:. Thanks so much for sending this new version. There is a lot of potential here and I am going to pass, albeit reluctantly. Climate change and apocalyptic or dystopian themed novels are difficult to place, although a further narrative layered on top creates interest. I sense that underneath the main narrative, this is a story is of grief? The loss of their mom; this is what moved me. Having just watched 28 Days Later. My editor said...

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Melanie Kendry was born in Yorkshire in 1979, in a tiny village clinging to the edge of a windswept moor. Superfreak was written during a turbulent period, at six am, at midnight, in between working, blogging and looking after her three lovely children. The novel was finished in May 2014. Say hello or ask a question: melaniekendry@curvelearn.com. Or use the form below. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public).

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Into the Blank Page: LOOK AWAY NOW!

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Monday, 21 March 2011. If you don't want to know how it ends, look away now! I'm currently editing the ending of the novel. I say editing. What I really mean is 'writing'. The major problem my editor picked up with Out of Time was with the end. It didn't have one. I sprained my brain thinking about it, and came up with something that works logically. The thing is, it isn't enough for it to make sense. It's supposed to make the reader go. Read more about Plot Structure. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Into the Blank Page: SOMETHING USEFUL AT LAST!

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Thursday, 17 March 2011. SOMETHING USEFUL AT LAST! I thought maybe I ought to explain the reason for the weird, tattoo-like markings on my characters. Take a deep breath. The Dreaming writes it into their DNA when they're incubating in the Invisible City. The markings can be read. They tell the past and future history of the Invisible City. Needless to say, past and future history is BAD! If you want to know what any of these things are, or what these words mean, go read the book. Life as a writer. Would...

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Into the Blank Page: A BIT WRONG

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Saturday, 5 February 2011. My editor said she thought I should add more description into. So today I wrote this:. The Learning Support Unit was a smallish room with fuzzy carpet and six wipe-clean desks, arranged in rigid formation. The teacher charged with keeping the demented element out of the way was Mr Fairs, the Learning Support Mentor. Mr Fairs looked up, eyes narrowed as the strip-light glinted off the top of his head. Now, the thing is, is this a bit wrong? 5 February 2011 at 21:57. I love your ...

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Into the Blank Page: LOVELY AGENT

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Sunday, 15 June 2014. So imagine my surprise when I sent my first three chapters to a zillion agents one day, and received a reply within seconds asking me to re-send the document. (I had mailed the digital equivalent of cooked spaghetti.). Five hours later, the agent replied to say she liked it, but it made no sense, and if I managed to make it make sense, then could she please see it again. Here's what she wrote:. I nearly fell off my chair. My novel didn't make sense. So this was back at the end of Ja...

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Into the Blank Page: SO THAT WAS THE END

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Saturday, 14 June 2014. SO THAT WAS THE END. This morning, I woke up and changed the end again. I've lost count of the number of times I've proudly told my kids that the blasted book is finally finished (again). Maybe now, it is. But I felt quite sad that we lost the happy resolution, and the message that kids are the ones who will solve climate change (get working kids! For a while I meant to return some kind of comment about Frank lying on the cellar floor thinking it was bad that they stopped Sally bu...

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Into the Blank Page: THEMES

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Monday, 24 September 2012. Maybe I watched Tangled too many times. This is the idea exactly as I wrote it when it came to me:. Dad refuses to let them go more than a certain distance from the house in case 'it' starts and they are too far to get back. There's frustrations of parental overprotectiveness but also parents fears things which children can't understand. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Life as a writer. Useful structures for writers. BLOGS I LOVE: ALLY BROSH. HOW TO CREATE METAPHORS. I forg...