Saturday, July 13, 2013

Writing and Editing

I have spent the last month editing Gejurkian Force so I could use up createspace offer that I had won in my winners goodies for NaNoWriMo 2012. The book although still needs a lot of work, this edit puts me on the third draft but I will only count it as the second because after NaNoWriMo I had to go through and fix all the spelling errors and took out a few scenes and added a few in. It was needed to have a complete story. 

As much as I hate editing I really did enjoy working on this. However, if I think if I want to keep it science fiction then I need to work on some elements. It was my first attempt at this type and style of writing, I think I really fell below my expectations in the ideas I initially had but I know what some of my problems are and I am willing to fix it. To work on it. 

Although I am working on other things, at the moment I have been pushing my creative thinking into flash fiction. I am never very good with ending of things. I have in the last four days, started and finished two of those flash fictions. It's hard to end them but I did. 

I also took note that is has been awhile since I last had a blog. The thing is my husband not only had one job offer he ended up with two. The first one he ended up having a medical hold put on place all while he had a phone interview, which turned into two phone and than they brought him out. It all happened so fast. He moved across country and I stayed back at home for two months. At the beginning of June me and the rest of the family moved across the country and joined up with him. 

That being said for almost two months I was painting cleaning and moving. After we got out here I spent the next month, cleaning, unpacking, cleaning and organizing. It was fun! Not really. There are still many things left to undo and that includes me getting around to writing. 

Until next time, Happy Writing. 

Tiffany