I'm getting used to this holiday lark. Yesterday I pulled a sixteen hour stretch on my novel. The day before I did over ten. It would have been more were it not for the gale which apparently blew half of Middlesex away, including a lamppost which luckily missed my car but mortally wounded the neighbour's rubbish bin.
I've now denuded all unnecessary 'was's', most 'that's' an even a few which's - really just 'what's' in disguise. And now I am finally repairing any grammatical errors that might have slipped through. I haven't changed my mind about self-publishing but if I can just get an agent or publisher to read my MS I think I might stand a good chance.
I've even had time to explore Triberr a little more. I'm still not sure what half the phrases mean but its fun. I have also picked up a few more followers on Twitter. They all sound so cool but half the time I have no idea what they're talking about.
You did all your 'was'. I'm sending my entire novel to you right now so you can do mine.
ReplyDeleteTwitter sure takes a while. I was forever running to their help section. If I did 16 hrs in my novel, I would have hit delete and walked away.
The trouble is, I removed too many. I never do anything by halves. Busu was-ing up my MS again.
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