Cynthia Harrison

Novelist

Category: sugar shack

  • Trials of the Pristine Copy

    Step 1 to get back into my novel was to print out what I have so far and read it straight through. But I ran out of copy paper, then the ink ran dry so that the pages looked like they’d been erased down the middle. After a ridiculously long time, I finally have the…

  • Sorry! & Sugar Shack

    A few people have sent me emails about my comments not working right. Sorry about that. I have no idea what’s wrong and I always feel really guilty asking my son for help. He’s got a busy life. I am sure he is counting down to 2012 when the blog becomes a website. I went…

  • Change

    I’ve been re-reading The Instruction and since the first read so much in my life has changed. I was able to see by my margin notes where in life I’d overcome obstacles and also where I was still stuck. The key word to my whole life pattern is “change” which brings with it the ability to…

  • Two Books, Bad and Beautiful

    Chipping away at the current WIP. Down from what was 80K to 70K. At this point, word count does not matter. Nothing matters except telling the best story I can. I know the difference. This week I read a horrible uncompelling novel by a best-selling author and a fabulous story by another best-selling writer. The first book will…

  • How Writers Work

    Feel better about revision since reading about other writer’s processes. They are all so different. Comes down to “whatever works for you.” Jennifer Egan writes out a draft in longhand and does not look at it again until she types it into her computer. She edits as she goes and then “revises endlessly.” One common plot…