I think I’m missing a trick here, for rarely do I
mention my books on my blog. I hope everyone finds the links to the book pages
and leave it at that, but maybe I should do more. As I’ve said, I’m re-editing Banners of Alba, which I published ten
years ago in the US. It astonishes me to see how wordy I was back then, and I’m
desperately trying to edit 147,000 words down to something closer to 100,000.
Currently I have 100 pages to go on a first run through and I’ve “lost” 10,000
words. Still room for lots more to go.
I’m experimenting with shorter chapters, too. In
many cases I am attempting to keep a chapter to one scene, or two scenes at
best and I’d prefer it if the characters remained the same. In order to
accomplish this I may need to do some re-jigging, place scenes in a slightly
different order, but it will all be for the best. The reason for this? It saves
skipping from one POV to another too often.
Would the pic on the right make a good new cover?
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