ANOTHER NEW FIRST PAGE …

October 5, 2007Uncategorized

… this is how it goes. Slowly. But here is a redrafted first page for the short story that was a novel. *** I drift from place to place and from year to year with such ease, now. But, despite what they think, I usually know that I am drifting. It’s just that I can’t … Read More

Editing, MATs and piles of paper

August 17, 2007

Most writers, in fact surely all of us except those with humungous sales, earn their living by doing something else (obviously not by MATing). I earn mine by editing other people’s non-fiction, and/or proofreading it. I have just quoted for a piece of editing work and while I am waiting for the editor at the … Read More