And round the cycle goes! I’ve once again come back to deleting this entire storyline (Ryan’s wayward older brother). Saves nearly 10k words but now need to fill in many many gaps. I love this character but making him fit is so much trouble…
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Bah! Spent the better part of a week dying from a cold but finally mending now and got a good editing session done. Nearly finished a whole scene. Nice bit of thinking this was FINE on first glance but then cutting fat AND finding all the parts to make it more! #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #editing
🎶 One scene forwards,
🎶 And two scenes back,
🎶 You don’t get very far
🎶 Editing like that…
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Elevator pitch incoming!
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Ryan & Albert live 200 years apart - but once per day a time-slip lets them meet. Now they need to solve the mystery of Clarence Hall before they accidentally change history!
Oh… and try not to fall for each other in the process!
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About 50% done editing 😁
Thanks, nothing officially yet. Spent some years working on the first entry of my full fantasy series - but that’s been shelved for now. High hopes for this one!
Not done one of these for a while - why not!
Here's a bit of Ryan and his older brother from Not Technically Ghosts
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Cool cool cool, shifted some scenes around to give Not Technically Ghosts Part 3 a stronger opening… and subsequently derailed multiple scenes afterwards! Urgh it’s fine, I’ll fix it 🙄
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It was a good prompt! Saw it and the idea was instant 🥐
Another town, another bakery. At the stroke of midnight, Hansel glared at the darkened windows of the shop, as Gretel passed him the lit Molotov cocktail.
Never. Again.
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Woo woo that’s part 2 of Not Technically Ghosts fully edited! Part 3 was rough to write and I know there’s more challenges ahead editing it - but I’m ready!!
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Ah ha, take THAT word-count! Was getting to a good tag on for the next scene, but then thought "oh there's still the OTHER scene I need to link first". Buuuut the other scene breaks the flow, takes too much focus away from the main plot. CUT CUT CUT!
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Onto the final new scene I’ve needed to add for Not Technically Ghosts Part 2. After that just 3 scenes to edit (should be light) then Part 2 will be done!
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Ahh now THAT’S a good writing session! Haven’t done anything that felt this decent in literally months. I might actually finish these edits one day!
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This damn subplot is the biggest thing strangling Not Technically Ghosts’ progress! Reworked and cut and shifted dozens of times. It holds up too many other parts of the plot to delete and I DO like it. It’s just so hard-going…
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As fun as they were, I’m glad to say I’ve now fully wrapped up x2 beta reads. I always think I can juggle it with my own writing but in reality I need to focus myself on one or the other. NOW I can get back to work! #writesky #booksky #writingcommunity
Spending a lot of my writing time at the moment working on a coupe of beta reads for some of my writer pals. Time well spent! Love working with other people’s work (plus gives me breathing room to keep figuring out my own story’s problems!) #booksky #writesky #writingcommunity
Thanks! Same to you 😁
Selfie. Me - pale, blond(ish) goblin boy with an attempted smile, wearing pink and white tie-dye tshirt. Sitting on grey patterned bed.
Hello 2026!
Back on track after a 2-ish months social media break whilst being creatively stuck and a bit stress-y depress-y.
Nearly 1/2 done edits on Not Technically Ghosts (after rEwRiTiNg tHe MiDdLe!)
Now ready for a year of success for me and all of you!
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NEARLY figured out how to fix this broken scene (scrap 90% + two scenes prior) but now realising there's a yet larger structural issue where this sequence of events plays out basically again later in the book! This section needs a MUCH bigger rethink!
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Tricky editing ahead. Got to an important scene - which felt very right at the time, but now I’m reading it back and actively hate so much of it. Very hollow and insincere for something so important. Needs heavy reworking here.
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Struggling to settle on my next project for after / during Not Technically Ghosts. Got a few ideas that could be great, but nothing that creatively has me by the throat, you know? Maybe just names out a hat at this point!
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Ahhh the classic editing conundrum. Am I doing fewer edits in these scenes because they’re good or because they’re good ENOUGH?
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Thanks me too! Just need to actually settle on one haha
*sigh*
Guess I’ll put Doctor Who script in the same ‘secondary project’ pile as:
- Witch opens ‘fake’ magic school
- Blacksmith stranded in a flying city
- Space-husbands sci-fi epic
I’ll pick one eventually!
Urrgghh edit my stupid important book or have nerdy fun writing my Doctor Who script? Decisions decisions…
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Me (blond pale goblin, wearing skeleton design black jumper, offering a semi smile that suggests I’m doing this under duress), background corner of a large clock, white wall. Overlaid text: October 25 - wrap up — Good start on Not Technically Ghosts part 2 edits! — On the way to getting new day-job! — 99% fixed a Not Technically Ghosts side plot that had been bugging me!
October 25 Wrap-up!
✍️ Good start on Not Technically Ghosts part 2 edits!
👨💼 On the path to getting new day-job!
🔀 Mostly fixed a Not Technically Ghosts side plot that had been bugging me!
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Very happy with work done today. Been dithering for some days over a side plot that just wasn’t hitting as I wanted. Nearly scrapped it (again) but after tweaking a scene and planning changes ahead - looking good now! Benji lives to see another day!
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Hmm writing (another!) new scene I QUITE like... but that I'm 70% sure I won't include in the book. Still, nice to have as backstory. May incorporate elsewhere.
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At last - x2 new scenes finished. A very necessary extra 3200-ish words, but I'm happy with the additions. Getting into one of my favourite sections now, looking forward to *these* edits!
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