tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post3267386266130804242..comments2024-03-26T17:48:56.627+00:00Comments on 'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?': Finishing a BookMartin Edwardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-3807242274223129232014-12-23T14:20:09.359+00:002014-12-23T14:20:09.359+00:00Hi Chrissie, that's one route I've not tri...Hi Chrissie, that's one route I've not tried. Yet.Martin Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-30114729345719814372014-12-23T14:19:31.444+00:002014-12-23T14:19:31.444+00:00Tim, many thanks. Glad you like the titles, and th...Tim, many thanks. Glad you like the titles, and these are very good points. As for revision - yes, if I had the chance to write a 'second edition' of some books, after a lapes of time, then I'd probably grab it...Martin Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-80130395756895678562014-12-23T11:45:27.067+00:002014-12-23T11:45:27.067+00:00Interesting post, Martin. In my own case I tend to...Interesting post, Martin. In my own case I tend to think I have finished and give it to some trusted friends to read. That's usually when I find it needs one more draft.Christinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16510409974009816550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-8912181346684680772014-12-22T14:12:04.122+00:002014-12-22T14:12:04.122+00:00I look forward to The Dungeon House -- what an irr...I look forward to The Dungeon House -- what an irresistible title!<br /><br />As I try to impress upon students in college writing classes, revision can be (should be) a necessarily endless process; students resist revision (most student writers revise nothing), and they have no idea why I call the process "necessarily endless." (That is one of the reasons my writing never gets off my desk and into the mail -- the revisions never end.)<br /><br />But you as a writer must understand. And the question then becomes this: <br /><br />How do you reconcile yourself to doing no more revisions and sending the book off into the marketplace? <br /><br />It must be a very difficult untying of the aprons strings when you have completed your final revisions. But if you had opportunities to revise for reprintings, would you seize the opportunity?<br /><br />All the best -- and Merry Christmas -- from the Redneck Riviera of the United States, the storm-battered area of the world where the tarnished buckle of the Bible Belt still shines, and where the oysters are almost always fresh and delicious . . . R.T.R.T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13220814349193561823noreply@blogger.com