Comments on: Revising Meet the Larssons, Day 5: What’s the Third Pile For? http://theunfocusedlife.com/2008/12/08/revising-meet-the-larssons-day-5-whats-the-third-pile-for/ Writing and running as fast as I can. Wed, 02 May 2012 19:59:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Unfocused Me http://theunfocusedlife.com/2008/12/08/revising-meet-the-larssons-day-5-whats-the-third-pile-for/#comment-3220 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:37:06 +0000 http://theunfocusedlife.com/?p=641#comment-3220 GypsyScarlett, the metaphor of ink as the writer’s blood being spilled all over the page is close enough to truth without using a red pen!

]]> By: gypsyscarlett http://theunfocusedlife.com/2008/12/08/revising-meet-the-larssons-day-5-whats-the-third-pile-for/#comment-3214 Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:52:44 +0000 http://theunfocusedlife.com/?p=641#comment-3214 Ah, those ink spotted pages look eerily familiar. Only difference being I used mostly red and purple colored pens.

Definitely not for the faint of heart. :)

]]> By: Unfocused Me http://theunfocusedlife.com/2008/12/08/revising-meet-the-larssons-day-5-whats-the-third-pile-for/#comment-3178 Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:00:14 +0000 http://theunfocusedlife.com/?p=641#comment-3178 Harriet – I’ve always hated editing, but giving myself a two-month break seems to have helped. I’ve effectively done 17 pages in three days, although I wrote an entire (short) chapter from nothing, so that number is a little misleading.

I don’t understand how you could have missed The Librarian. Noah Wylie’s character has the job that everyone we went to school with secretly (or not so secretly) wanted. Or still wants. If anyone is looking to hire someone for that job, my email address is in the sidebar, toward the bottom.

Jenifer – I keep telling myself all my pretty scenes are still there on the computer, that I can go back and re-read the restaurant scene with Crenshaw and Jacqueline anytime I want to. But they had to go. They’re backstory, they’re told from the wrong POV, they don’t advance the plot. They are, as someone on AW pointed out to me, vignettes at most. So they’re out, and future literary scholars can read them to gain new insight into my characters’ motivations.

]]> By: Jenifer http://theunfocusedlife.com/2008/12/08/revising-meet-the-larssons-day-5-whats-the-third-pile-for/#comment-3176 Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:28:13 +0000 http://theunfocusedlife.com/?p=641#comment-3176 Ah, the beautiful carnage of revision! It’s almost scary to look at all that blue ink, but it’s worth it.

Scary to cut so much work, isn’t it, even if you know from the get-go that you were going to cut it. Still, to see it all laid out like that is pretty impressive…thanks for sharing the pics. Good luck with the revision!

]]> By: harri3tspy http://theunfocusedlife.com/2008/12/08/revising-meet-the-larssons-day-5-whats-the-third-pile-for/#comment-3174 Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:15:38 +0000 http://theunfocusedlife.com/?p=641#comment-3174 First, I’ve been meaning to thank you for posting the link to the editing method, because as I slog through 400+ pages of material researched and written over a period of a decade, I’ve found myself in need of a methodical system, preferably one that gets me away from the computer, because that’s not working so well for me at the moment. This has been helpful. And second, how can I never have heard of the librarian series?

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