Revising Purchas

[poliphilo]

I'm in the middle of revising the four interconnected novels over at purchas. I wrote them very fast- in less than a month each- and with very little forward planning. My main mistake- first time round- was to introduce a new villain in book # 2 when I had a perfectly amenable and very similar one to hand. That has been rectified. I have also rewritten a chunk of the second book where the action was particularly implausible and one of my people was acting out of character. Otherwise it's been a matter of going over the surface with a soft cloth.

Now I need to get started on book #3. 

Comments

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

Oh, good news. Returning to stuff you wrote some time ago with fresh eyes is very helpful. It becomes like a collaboration between two versions of yourself - younger and older. And we all know two heads are better than one. I hope that by the time the two of you have each added your magic, it will be ready to go off to some publishers.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

After a gap of four years the stuff that doesn't work comes leaping off the page.

There may be more books to come; at the moment I really don't know.