It also occurred to me how amazing we have it as writers with an unlimited research facility available to us with a few clicks on the keyboard.
We live in awesome times.
I know this scene needs to be fleshed out (no pun intended), but my first-drafts usually have too little information rather than too much. It's during the second-draft that I end up with heavy pages of description when I'm trying to fill in what's missing and end up overshooting what's necessary. Third pass is for trimming it down.
so terribly inappropriate, that I staggered back from the den.“You really killed a god.”
ReplyDeleteI'm having a problem with the word "inapporpriate" I don't see her voice saying that. Otherwise very intriguing
So true - I cannot imagine writing without a word processing program and all the research at our finger tips - assuming can find what we need I’ve written submissions in the past on typewriters - the horror! Having to re type a whole page for one typo if could not correct it with white out
Charles Schultz had an entire library as reference for doing Peanuts, iirc. The world has changed in many ways, which tend to be more useful than they sometimes seem.
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