I often listened to Mariza, sometimes the same song on and on again, while writing Copper Moon.
I am now fairly familiar with some of the main features that made the writing inappropriate for publishing.
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Some writers are able to look at their own writing as someone else's, from a distance, but for me, creating this well-wanted distance took about one and a half years.
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Some writers are able to look at their own writing as someone else's, from a distance, but for me, creating this well-wanted distance took about one and a half years.
I know see that at some particular parts of the novel, my words simply do not, or not completely convey the background, the meaning I intended to say.
Sometimes main points and reasons are missing.
I mean, I make little of these explanations avaiable for the reader.
Yet some readers do prefer obscure writing and like to discover the story on their own.
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Strangely enough, some of the actions in the story have the opposite mistake. They are described to the most minute detail, leaving not really much to imagination.
Now I see all those mistakes.
Are those really mistakes?
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I do not consider myself broken, although the music now makes me sad.
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At the same time it makes me proud of what I accomplished with having written Copper Moon.
It may take a while to polish to let it shine.-
Cheers,
4 comments:
Getting that editorial distance is hard as can be. But it's certainly neccessary.
i see its importance now. oh, one sometimes learns things the hard way.
thank you Charles for your contribution!
Editing is so difficult. I'm editing my novel now, and I relate to what you're saying, it can be so difficult to find the balance between leaving things unsaid and describing too much. Good luck!
oh Juliet,
i am so sorry for not replying earlier.
thank you for your kind words and i hope your editing goes well and the novel is about to get published by now.
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