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The Sisters Mederos

Cutting words on Bandit Girls

So much of writing is a wordage game that it always kills me to cut in the first draft. Dammit, Jim! I’m a writer, not a … word-destroyer person… Anyway, so that hurt, but what ended up happening is that though I cut out an 11000-word sequence, I had always Read more…

By Patrice Sarath, 8 years8 years ago
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Writers, writers groups, and writing wonkery

I’ve submitted the screenplay and now can forget about it until whenever the results start coming back. This is a relief, a lifted weight. I was thinking tonight, okay, now I can start on a new project, and move forward. At Cryptopolis tonight we critiqued a chunk of one member’s Read more…

By Patrice Sarath, 10 years ago
Gordath Wood

The writers group finishes the book

My writers group cryptopolis finished its critique of the third book in the Gordath Wood series — actually, it’s the first book in a duology, not the conclusion of a trilogy. So the group got together and created a little surprise for me.   What is the significance of the Read more…

By Patrice Sarath, 10 years ago

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