At this late point in my revisions, the changes I'm making in my novel Cobalt Blue are small and huge.
SMALL CHANGES because:
*they're short
*they don't take long.
HUGE CHANGES because:
*the small additions, to fill in holes that my local reader/critics pointed out, are very high-impact
*I've worked on this story off and on for 18 years (while also writing three other books, etc.) and know all the off-stage history of the characters, can thus produce a highly relevant mini-scene pretty easily
*I know the story so well that I've grown more sure of each step I take, and each step is therefore stronger and clearer: BOLDER.
It's a very nice feeling, a real treat, in fact. It feels like a reward for a lot of groudwork, this rare ease.
Friday, April 07, 2006
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