K.Childs

So I've spent last week in the hospital having my gall bladder removed and all the days in between so high on medication that I dreamed the entire first episode of a bad B grade TV show of a series of novels I can rant about for hours on end. What is the revision trap?   I've seen this picked up from a lot of different places, but I'll share the trap that I find myself most often falling into; a desire to publish chapter at a time for an audience but to ensure that each chapter is 'good enough' before throwing it out. This is probably most common from authors like me who learned their craft from fanfic and crowds of short reviews or quick 'update more!' expressions that make you rush a story at first and then bury yourself in a hole about halfway through. The revision trap for me, especially is a moment where after 20,000 words I stop and say 'I need to revise, adjust, change some things before I can continue on.' So the story, at this point, ...

Obviously these are all just my own, personal opinions. Write your novel your way. Take the advice that works for you. This is what works for me; what 15 years of experience has taught me. 1.1 Beginnings This is something of a two-birds and single rock for me. On the one hand, it is my first post on a fresh and shiny blog page that promotes me as an author, as a serious writer of genre fiction and, I just started the first precious words of a new novel. Beginning can be tough. Some of you, pantsers like me, might just rush at the sudden outpour of words onto paper and see where they take you. Others, the planners, need to know where they are starting, who with and why. These questions should still enter a pantsers mind; but I think we say ‘well let’s find out.’ And the novel shapes outward. But maybe you aren’t sure where to begin, or who with or why. This hits me sometimes. I’ve come up with some characters, a genre, a universe. I know scenes I want to get to, what h...