Thursday, September 21, 2006

Polish

I did my first read through tonight of Charlie Darling. I've let it sit for over a week so I could look at it objectively. I added 300 words tonight just on my first pass through, expanding a few things, removing some minor anomalies and smoothing a couple of lumpy transitions. I love the story, Juliet and Neil are a great couple and I'm happy with the basics, whether it's medical enough, I'm not sure. It reflects real life at a surgery. I know that, I'm a health visitor, I see it and live it every day but I don't know, because I'm not a good judge of my own work, if it's what the line would feel works for them. It's real and authentic but.....
I know, Michelle and Anna's crows of doubt are busy pecking on my front lawn.

More polishing and depth coming up.

2 comments:

Lis said...

*throwing rocks at crows of doubt* Trust me, these guys can take off :) I'm a few more chapters in and loving it!

Jessica Raymond said...

Adds a hose of water to Lis's rocks to banish the devil-birds