Jeff Macfee

I may have already mentioned these books, but I’m lazy and I’m not going back to search my own blog to check. Besides, these books gave me a charge and should help in the rewriting/editing of my second draft. I’ve read a few of them before, but re-reading/skimming these books really helped. [...]

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I’m about ready to jump off the ledge and start advertising this blog. I’m also considering some promotion for my work-in-progress. My question: should I start posting any of my unpublished work for people to read and shit on, or I should wait for it to be published before I let people [...]

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Merry Christmas (yeah, yeah Happy Holidays you PC types) to all. No one is reading blog yet, to my knowledge, but I felt I should put out the good wishes regardless. I feel good doing it anyway.
And I found Tom Waits today. Apparently I live in a cave. Awesome, awesome, awesome. [...]

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I don’t know how to edit, or I didn’t. I’m slowly learning this as I stumble my way through the process. It did not occur to me at first, but I’ve never edited a novel before, as I’ve never finished a novel before now. It’s no wonder I’m stumbling.
But yesterday, in a [...]

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Looks like I’m doing about a chapter a day. I have no idea if that’s good. And it could be meaningless, as I’ll be editing the edited material later.
I’m forcing myself to figure out some things about the world of this book that maybe, maybe, I should have figured out during the first [...]

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