Good news from my editor yesterday, of the “good story, now we just need a little less of it” variety. I can do that. I can cut. Especially when she told me exactly where to look.
What’s funny is that the sections she said were expendable had, of course, seemed crucial to me. Character development in The Day-Glo Brothers had been a weak spot, but I guess I overcompensated.
Which is not hard to do, especially in a picture book. It may take a lot of thinking, but often it doesn’t take many words to fix what seems to be an insurmountable problem with a manuscript. That’s another one of those lessons I keep having to relearn, and if my editor hadn’t told me where to cut this time, I probably wouldn’t be remembering that lesson right now.
Looks like the revisions are going pretty well. I always have problems cutting stuff, especially the stuff I like. Good luck.
Looks like the revisions are going pretty well. I always have problems cutting stuff, especially the stuff I like. Good luck.
Looks like the revisions are going pretty well. I always have problems cutting stuff, especially the stuff I like. Good luck.
Im just getting my first experience with revisions (writing), I’m looking forward to it actually. Day-glow, when you used those words in a comment earlier, I thought you meant day-glow strollers.
Im just getting my first experience with revisions (writing), I’m looking forward to it actually. Day-glow, when you used those words in a comment earlier, I thought you meant day-glow strollers.
Im just getting my first experience with revisions (writing), I’m looking forward to it actually. Day-glow, when you used those words in a comment earlier, I thought you meant day-glow strollers.
Day-Glo strollers, Day-Glo anything. Those colors used to not exist, now they do, and it’s all because of Joe and Bob Switzer.
Day-Glo strollers, Day-Glo anything. Those colors used to not exist, now they do, and it’s all because of Joe and Bob Switzer.
Day-Glo strollers, Day-Glo anything. Those colors used to not exist, now they do, and it’s all because of Joe and Bob Switzer.