For various reasons (life in all its glorious unpredictability, mostly) I find myself re-rewriting my second novel. It’s not an unusual state, after all, all writing is rewriting (finally found the man who said it): Writing is rewriting. A writer must learn to deepen characters, trim writing, intensify scenes. To fall in love with the … Read More
Written in Water
Rewrites and primroses
I’ve just delivered the rewritten manuscript of my second novel, WRITTEN in WATER (as it is now called) to my agent. Wish it luck, please. I’ve written about the novel before, here, but it was a while ago (writing a novel is like climbing a mountain, you keep reaching a summit which, you discover, has … Read More
Nine months later …
… and exactly the right amount of time since my last post, because I have just delivered the manuscript of my second novel to my agent. The process hasn’t been painless, but what birth is? But the most important thing I’ve discovered is that a story can be told in many different ways without its … Read More