I don’t hate edits as much as I used to, though I still wish I had a more critical eye for my own story’s strengths and weaknesses.
I like seeing the way a story can change through edits, too. Being part of a critique group where I get to read and reread chapters is a neat way to see how things evolve for writers (besides myself). How a sentence that worked becomes a paragraph and an entire paragraph will get killed in favor of another. How you can alter a scene’s pacing by cutting here and adding there. It is really neat to see a good story become great.
On that note I edited (thanks to my critique buddy, vivid_cognition) and submitted my story for eXtasy’s September anthology, Cafe Nowhere. Whee! I also joined my local chapter of the RWA, and attended their monthly meeting. It was great to see people coming together. This year’s goal is “submit,” which gives me a giggle but is right in line with my goals. I hope to get Waking Kiara ready to submit to agents, start my very first round of NY rejections, by the third quarter of the year this year.
Lastly, I am sheeple and I joined twitter. You can be my twitter friend: ameliajune, or you can read my twitter feed on my sidebar over there —–>
Have I mentioned how thrilled I am to be writing again? ‘Cause I am!
