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Revised

On March 27, 2011

In MONSTER KINGDOM, RESURRECT, Revising, Writing

Okay, so it’s been a while since I’ve posted. Time to fix that.

I started revising my first manuscript, for the thriller RESURRECT, a few days after I finished writing it. That would have put it around end of August 2010.

What I did was print out the book on paper. Then I read through with a red pen and marked up the whole thing. Probably the last time I’ll do it that way.

I got through about a quarter of the manuscript rapidly, and then life intervened. I had family visit. Then I fooled myself into thinking I would enter 2010’s National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) contest. Shortly after I started the contest (or in other words, about ten pages into my NaNoWriMo novel), I took on a side job that killed any chance of completing the contest.

Revisions

By Kane

On September 8, 2010

In Site, Writing

Been working on revisions for “Resurrect”. Nearly there. Also working on book 2. Changed a few things around on the site too.

Will post soon on some of the revision work and what that entails for me.

-Kane
07 Sept 2010

Niantic Pilgrimage

By Kane

On August 15, 2010

In Inspiration

Yesterday, I drove four hours south to Niantic, Connecticut. A small touristy town on the Long Island Sound. Besides having some great pizza and a view across the Sound of the Montauk tip of Long Island, Niantic had something else that drew me–The Book Barn.

The Book Barn is a sprawling book store that takes up several small barns and sheds on the property and also encompasses a separate store a mile further downtown. They have close to half a million books and tons of new stock coming in daily. For a book lover like me, it was a blast.

Even still, I’ve got my book browsing to the point where I spent only three hours to ravage their entire stock.

The Two Sweetest Words

By Kane

On August 15, 2010

In Writing

On Tuesday, 10 August, I finally got to type the two sweetest words in the English language: “The end”.

After nearly 10 years (I had the idea in the summer of 2000 and started writing in December of that year), I finished the first draft of my first novel, Resurrect.

Now, I don’t write in the typical successive draft approach, so this draft is not going to be far off from the finished product. I do call it my “first draft” though, because it still needs some work.