Finished my first pass through what I'm calling the submission copy of Corruption of Power. I'll let it sit for a week or so then go through for a proofread.
Category: Writing
Novel revisions
Finished editing chapter three of the submission copy of Corruption of Power. Once I do the outline for the rest of the story I can review it one last time. Should be ready for that by the weekend.
Never ending revisions
Finished the markup of the hardcopy for the second chapter and entered it. Started working on the third chapter.
Novel revisions
Got through the rewrite of the first chapter and started the second chapter this past weekend. So far it's going well. I had the cottage to myself so I was able to really work fast. I was also able to start marking up the hardcopy of chapter 2.
Writing update
Keeping busy with working on the first three chapters. Actually they're more than three chapters. I've combined seven chapters into three because they're so short in the original and reordered them to have my protagonist go first. I've taken the outline that I used for myself and started rewriting it to sell the book. Right… Continue reading Writing update
Writing update
Met with Rob Sawyer to go over a short story. He's currently Writer in Residence at the Merrill Collection of the Toronto Public Library. He read a short story I had been working on and gave me a good critique. Before I left I ran an idea past him. I was thinking of working on… Continue reading Writing update
Another writing weekend
Spent the weekend up north working on the book. Made some good progress on the book. Got another twenty pages done.
Writing weekend
Spent the weekend at the cottage writing; a very productive two days. Made about 40 pages of progress.
Ad Astra 2003
Went to Ad Astra, a regional science fiction convention over the past weekend. It's the sixth year in a row that I've gone and it's always inspiring to get together with so many other writers.
Things are looking up so far
Went out for lunch with Rob Sawyer to pick his brain on publishing and writing. I took a class from him in 1997 when he taught at Ryerson. It was very informative and an interesting conversation. All I have to do is put it to work.
Dispatches from Obscurity 