Cynthia Harrison

Novelist

Category: Revision

  • The Real Deal

    I’ve been working all week on edits sent by my editor on Monday. There was a time when I would have felt like the luckiest person in the world to have this opportunity. What’s interesting is that it has not been a comfortable process. It’s mostly just tedious. I really like my editor. She’s funny and smart…

  • Lies I Tell Myself

    When I finallly got a smart phone, I found more ways to connect without dragging out the laptop. I could check FB and my email. I could read Shakespeare’s complete works waiting in a long line somewhere.  This was all exciting and in the rush of it all I thought maybe I’d do NaNoTweMo. Turns out NaNoTweMo is a made up thing in…

  • Status Update

    Halfway through revisions and almost finished with my costume for the party tomorrow night. Halfway through the semester, too. Am looking forward to the end of revisions, the end of the semester, and the start of the party!

  • Critique Week in Review

    This week I had a double dose of critique advice in two different settings on two different WIPs. Tuesday, our writing group in Royal Oak had their annual critique. The 30 or so of us who attended broke into groups and the writers take turns readingfor 10 minutes (I managed 9 and a half pages) and…

  • Present Moment

    I spend a good part of my day reminding myself to stay in the present moment, to stay with whatever is happening now without worrying about what will happen or did happen or what someone else is thinking or what I wish I was doing. That’s good advice for writers, too. Stay in the now of the story.…