Some, I suppose, might view my stories as insufficiently trendy or controversial.
After all, they might say, all they do is identify the bad in the world and try to show the good.
Why doesn’t she revel in cruelty and violence? That’s our modern world, isn’t it? Virtuous people? Huh? And a lot of them are LGBT?
Where’s the cynicism? What’s with all the hope? What a loser.
Be everwell.
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Something I don’t mind including, in certain situations, is inadvertent humor on a character’s part in an otherwise serious scene.
It just seems more human to me.
In a moment of anger or sadness, for instance, when we aren’t thinking as clear, things are said that would otherwise be funny, but instead land as pitiful or sad. It can lend more potency to the moment’s emotions.
Be everwell.
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Just a handful of chapters remain to edit in the novella. Good gosh, this story was wordy.
I’m not sure how many words I’ve removed beyond “a lot,” but I know that Book-5 lost 13K words when I used the editing system on it.
When one word is substituted for wordy phrases of four or five words, that’s what happens. Yet, I read it afterwards and it seems like there’s more story.
Be everwell.
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Countless people are becoming involved these days, and with good reason. Even at my age, I’m moving in that direction, having attended one event, another coming up locally.
I’m realizing that those actions parallel what I write about in the Kovenlore books, characters becoming involved, trying to save a nation.
Thing is, I drafted these books all before 2021.
Be everwell.
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A River in Each Hand (Kovenlore Book-2) was my first sequel. If you’ve never written one, you’re in for an experience.
I’ve lost count of how many times I scrapped the opening chapters (especially the first) and rewrote them. Why?
I kept trying to recap Book-1. As a reader, that bores me to tears, yet there I was doing it, until I treated Book-1 as backstory to be sprinkled in.
Be everwell.
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Christina Anne Hawthorne
Rob Bignell, Editor/Author
