Tag: editing

  • Testing stories

    I wrote last Friday how I’d woken up early with the idea to make a story work after years of telling then writing then rewriting. Well I tried it out today at Dartmouth and Kingsbridge Libraries, and it works brilliantly. Just one or two little changes and I can get on with a dummy. I’m…

  • Pencil Roughs

    I’ve just finished the pencil roughs for my first Axel Storm book. I’m not going to share them with you because they look a complete mess! I use that word, “rough,” to mean just that. There is a level of reworking and sketching and roughing out that makes the finished drawings lose something – spontaneity,…

  • Writing funny!

    For the first time in my life, I’ve written something that has made me laugh out loud! Actually it brought tears to my eyes. It’s the character that did it – Axel Storm’s bombastic Uncle Ritchie’s character is expanding as I write. He’s a monster! I never knew this until I began writing him in.…