Writing a novel is like making a fine wine, so they say. You need to give it some time to develop. So far I’ve been following that advice, now that I’m entering the fourth year of working on Raising Fear. It’s been a slow process, some bursts of energy and focus, then a time …
For months I’ve been struggling with revising my novel. It has seemed like a monumental task, slogging through hundreds of pages, this time looking for plot holes, another adding detail. Some writers claim only one revision pass is needed; another listed no less than eighteen. Given how slow I am at revision, it will be …