Cynthia Harrison

Novelist

Category: Revision

  • After Revision

    Yay! I finished my revision today. Boo! I now need to add 50 pages to the novel in order for my publisher to offer a print version. I slashed through my manuscript, merciless to my darlings, mostly flights of fancy that didn’t add to the story but gave me room to monologue about how Eva was feeling…

  • Cutting Up the Book

    Today I can see perfectly with both eyes again! And no headache on the horizon:) So of course I am ready to dive back into my manuscript to make the changes for the Wild Rose Press editor. She wants a big cut, and she’s right about that. But it’s not as much as I thought.…

  • Discovering Theme

    Alice Munro has a new book of stories out. In Dear Life, the final four stories are as close to memoir, she says, that she’ll ever write. I was disappointed when a reviewer mentioned that the quartet takes place when Munro was a young girl growing up on a fox farm in Ontario, Canada. She’s…

  • The Patient Writer

    Are you like me? I always rush my ending because I want to be done already. I catch it in revision, but there’s another problem: by the time I get to that point of the manuscript, I want the rewrite to be over. I have to really be careful and catch myself. I caught myself today. I…

  • Closer

    Final galleys came yesterday. On page 127. Only found one tiny mistake! What I find most unbelievable is that I still like my story even after endless edits. That has to be good. Right?