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Megan Carpenter
megcarpen Megan Carpenter
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@jefro_net Ditto, mine is great, but seems to be missing a little. #editingchat
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Liberty Speidel
righter1 Liberty Speidel
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@VictoriaMixon #editingchat If my kids cooperate! 🙂
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Megan Carpenter
megcarpen Megan Carpenter
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@VictoriaMixon Yes! #editingchat
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Ben Reynolds
Benandthebuses Ben Reynolds
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@VictoriaMixon Thanks for that Victoria -the closest I’ve come to a writing class #editingchat
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M. Terry Green
mterrygreen M. Terry Green
@VictoriaMixon: Do you guys want to do this again next week? #editingchat \ Yep.
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
You can think about it & drop me a line later if you like. #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
Do you guys want to do this again next week? #editingchat
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Liberty Speidel
righter1 Liberty Speidel
@VictoriaMixon #editingchat Yes, thank you very much! Very interesting.
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
De nachos! @mterrygreen Thanks mucho! #editingchat
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jefro_net
jefro_net jefro_net
I wish my writing classes had been anything like #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
Write toward your Climax, people. Always write toward your Climax. You can figure out the Resolution when you get there. #editingchat
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Megan Carpenter
megcarpen Megan Carpenter
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@VictoriaMixon That was amazing! Great points to remember about development. #editingchat
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M. Terry Green
mterrygreen M. Terry Green
@VictoriaMixon It’s been like a writing class. Thanks mucho! #editingchat
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Megan Carpenter
megcarpen Megan Carpenter
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@VictoriaMixon Ah! And there’s much more interest as well! #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
Any last thoughts? #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
Now our hour is up, & it’s possible someone else is waiting to use the #editingchat phone line.
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
Then when the child is born, then in the Climax *kidnapped* the reader is sucker-punched. #editingchat #omgtheygotthekid!
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
So the pregnancy/child subplot seems like an interesting issue, but not the main one, to the reader. #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
Yes, your work is making the char’s need to redeem his death the reader’s need as well. #editingchat
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M. Terry Green
mterrygreen M. Terry Green
@VictoriaMixon: We’re crossing wires w/someone else here. It’s suddenly a party-line. #editingchat \ Nachos and jelly beans brought them.
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
We’re crossing wires w/someone else here. It’s suddenly a party-line. #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
And this gives you your story: your story is the story of her involvement w/the revolution. #editingchat
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M. Terry Green
mterrygreen M. Terry Green
@VictoriaMixon: need to stick with revolution, to redeem fiance’s death. #editingchat \ They gave up everything for it. He died for it.
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
B/c the reader already has that overwhelming need to save your own child. We get taught that by society. #editingchat
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Shonika Proctor
teenbizcoach Shonika Proctor
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@ApothecaryJeri He is in NYC???? He is going hard like that….very awesome!!! So proud of that guy. #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
. . .the overwhelming need to stick with that revolution, to redeem that fiance’s death. #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
But if you want to write such a story, you need to focus on creating in the reader (the reader! not just the char!). . . #editingchat
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ApothecaryJeri
ApothecaryJeri ApothecaryJeri
@teenbizcoach LOL yes indeed! He’s based out of NYC these days~comes back monthly for FamilyHemerlein at GibsonGuitar Showroom #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
Yes, it’s always terrible to do bad things to good chars. #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
So you have to create a situation in which her attachment to the revolution really is that powerful & believable to the reader. #editingchat
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Liberty Speidel
righter1 Liberty Speidel
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@mterrygreen @VictoriaMixon #editingchat LOL! 🙂 Great minds… 😉
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
Be aware that saving your child’s life is a no-brainer for most readers. That’s #1 priority. #editingchat
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Megan Carpenter
megcarpen Megan Carpenter
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@VictoriaMixon Yes, I think that’s where I was having a horrible time, torturing people. I like her! #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
OH. The child is kidnapped, & she has to choose btwn saving child & staying on whatever course toward forgiveness she’s on. #editingchat
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M. Terry Green
mterrygreen M. Terry Green
@righter1: @VictoriaMixon #editingchat Walk away from the cause. \ Jinx!
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
There’s a good one! #editingchat leave the revolution
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Liberty Speidel
righter1 Liberty Speidel
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@VictoriaMixon #editingchat Walk away from the cause that killed the fiancé. She probably wouldn’t be able to forgive herself, but save kid.
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
Do you see how creating that terrible dilemma, that nightmare choice, is what drives your reader to read your entire novel? #editingchat
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Megan Carpenter
megcarpen Megan Carpenter
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@VictoriaMixon if the child disappeared, was kidnapped #editingchat (yes, I’m a horrible person)
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M. Terry Green
mterrygreen M. Terry Green
@VictoriaMixon: inescapable choice? @megcarpen save the child, make life easier #editingchat \ Leave the revolution her fiance died for.
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
@mterrygreen I know you do–we all do. That’s why we read stories! To get to the punchline. #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
Yes, mysteries are fab for this stuff. #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
How could you do that to her? create that inescapable choice? @megcarpen save the child, make life easier #editingchat
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Liberty Speidel
righter1 Liberty Speidel
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@VictoriaMixon Forgot to add #editingchat. I write mysteries. I love putting my characters in peril! #evillaugh
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
But first let’s brainstorm choices. In what way cd she EITHER redeem his death OR be forgiven, but not both? #editingchat
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Megan Carpenter
megcarpen Megan Carpenter
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@VictoriaMixon so she has a choice, save the child, or make life easier on herself #editingchat
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M. Terry Green
mterrygreen M. Terry Green
@VictoriaMixon: You really want to get straight to that Resolution! 🙂 #editingchat \ I think I’d really just like to know what it is!
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M. Terry Green
mterrygreen M. Terry Green
Fellow writers: @VictoriaMixon answering Qs about editing for 10 more minutes. Listen in with #editingchat. #selfpublishing #epublishing
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
Y’all are really optimistic little chipmunks, aren’t you? You really want to get straight to that Resolution! 🙂 #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
But you must know you’re going to force her into that situation. #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
You don’t have to know how she’s going to resolve it right now. #editingchat
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M. Terry Green
mterrygreen M. Terry Green
@VictoriaMixon: only way to earn forgiveness from herself/her child is give up hope of redeeming his death? #editingchat \ I vote for this.
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
That moment of facing her worst nightmare, the choice she simply can’t face, is the Climax of your story. #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
She must face that choice. #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
Remember Sophie’s Choice? Every single protagonist comes to a place where they must choose. #editingchoice
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
Or, conversely, the only way to earn forgiveness from herself/her child is to give up hope of redeeming his death? #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
What if the only way to redeem her fiance’s death is to give up hope her child will ever forgive her? #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
There’s a good one–in risking her own life, she risks not being forgiven. #editingchat
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M. Terry Green
mterrygreen M. Terry Green
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@VictoriaMixon She has to choose between forgiveness and the life of the child. What mechanism would accomplish it? #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
What’s her choice b/twn either raising the child or sacrificing herself for it? #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
But we have to. Otherwise, the Resolution won’t have real meaning. #editingchat
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Liberty Speidel
righter1 Liberty Speidel
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@VictoriaMixon #editingchat Put her own life in danger, thus risking the child (if unborn) and not being able to receive forgiveness.
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
See, we’re running toward the Resolution w/o facing the Climax. This is very common. We don’t want to wreck the chars lives. #editingchat
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Megan Carpenter
megcarpen Megan Carpenter
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@VictoriaMixon raising his child, or sacrificing herself for the child. #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
Possibly. @mterrygreen But that’s Resolution, which we don’t need to do yet. 1st we need to find the worst thing to do to her. #editingchat
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Keri Schneider
keriflur Keri Schneider
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@mterrygreen Ooh, I like that! #editingchat
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Megan Carpenter
megcarpen Megan Carpenter
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@VictoriaMixon she needs to be in a situation where she realizes that she has to forgive herself, he willingly died for her #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
What could offer her redemption of her fiance’s death? that he did not die in vain? #editingchat
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M. Terry Green
mterrygreen M. Terry Green
@VictoriaMixon: Possibly she grows beyond need for forgiveness in her efforts to save the child. Learns something of herself. #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
. . .if she chooses the child’s survival over it. #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
And that something has to involve this need for forgiveness, her facing she may never get that forgiveness. . . #editingchat
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Megan Carpenter
megcarpen Megan Carpenter
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@VictoriaMixon she can’t let the fiance’s death be in vain, she feels she owes him #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
Well, if survival is one issue, then something has to threaten that survival, yes? #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
She needs forgiveness for fiance’s death. She needs the child to survive. What situation would force her to choose? #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
So more than her own survival, she needs her child to survive? #editingchat loss of the child
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M. Terry Green
mterrygreen M. Terry Green
@megcarpen: @VictoriaMixon The loss of the child, and never forgiving herself? #editingchat \ And the child may blame her as well?
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Megan Carpenter
megcarpen Megan Carpenter
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@VictoriaMixon The loss of the child, and never forgiving herself? #editingchat
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Megan Carpenter
megcarpen Megan Carpenter
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@mterrygreen @righter1 @VictoriaMixon It’s an idea I’ve been playing with. #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
What is the one thing she absolutely cannot face and still meet both needs? #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
What’s her worst nightmare, given these 2 needs? #editingchat
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M. Terry Green
mterrygreen M. Terry Green
@megcarpen: @righter1 @VictoriaMixon That’s a good one. Herself #editingchat \ I hope somebody writes this!
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
And she’s trapped b/twn those two overpowering needs. #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
So she’s got two needs: she needs forgiveness for the death of the fiance (father of child?) & also needs to survive revolution #editingchat
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Megan Carpenter
megcarpen Megan Carpenter
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@righter1 @VictoriaMixon That’s a good one. Herself #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
Exactly. #editingchat the fiance
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
Fabulous–our worst enemies are always ourselves. #editingchat Herself.
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Megan Carpenter
megcarpen Megan Carpenter
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@VictoriaMixon the fiance 😉 #editingchat
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Liberty Speidel
righter1 Liberty Speidel
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@VictoriaMixon #editingchat Herself.
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
Excellent. Someone died. Who died? #editingchat #hintseefirstsentence
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
Anybody–from whom does she need forgiveness? #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
Yes, that’s the next question, depending upon whom she needs it from. #editingchat why can’t she get it?
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M. Terry Green
mterrygreen M. Terry Green
@VictoriaMixon: Whom does she need forgiveness from? #editingchat \ Someone who’s died in the revolution.
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M. Terry Green
mterrygreen M. Terry Green
@VictoriaMixon: And why can’t she get it? #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
Whom does she need forgiveness from? #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
She needs forgiveness b/c she can’t get it, right? Otherwise it wdn’t be an issue. #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
And she’s hungry. #editingchat #allrightyouguyswiththenachos
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
So let’s play w/this: she needs forgiveness–she’s losing herself in guilt–& she also needs to survive. #editingchat
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M. Terry Green
mterrygreen M. Terry Green
@keriflur: @VictoriaMixon She needs to survive without losing herself #editingchat | Ooooh, *nice*.
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Megan Carpenter
megcarpen Megan Carpenter
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@mterrygreen @VictoriaMixon Nachos! That would be great! #editingchat I write about food when I’m hungry
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Keri Schneider
keriflur Keri Schneider
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@VictoriaMixon She needs to survive without losing herself #editingchat
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Megan Carpenter
megcarpen Megan Carpenter
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@VictoriaMixon I think that’s where I’m running into issues, it/she is not well defined. #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
So she feels guilty for what’s happened? #editingchat forgiveness
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Liberty Speidel
righter1 Liberty Speidel
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@mterrygreen #editingchat I’ve been able to work on other projects, but my main focus has been this one WIP. I want it done! 🙂
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M. Terry Green
mterrygreen M. Terry Green
@VictoriaMixon: Anybody can answer what the woman needs. We’re just playing around here. #editingchat \ Needs forgiveness (and nachos).
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
Is that what went flying past? @mterrygreen #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
Anybody can answer what the woman needs. We’re just playing around here. #editingchat
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Liberty Speidel
righter1 Liberty Speidel
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@VictoriaMixon Ah! I have that in a box somewhere (recently moved). I don’t think I ever finished reading it! Time to dig… #editingchat
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M. Terry Green
mterrygreen M. Terry Green
@righter1: I heard that. I’m generally ready to chuck the WIP across the street rather than start work on the cover. #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
@shanearthur I don’t remember. Try here: https://victoriamixon.com//advice #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
@righter1 Bird by Bird, her one book on writing. #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
What does that woman *need*, with all her soul, above all other things? #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
Fab, @megcarpen #editingchat
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Liberty Speidel
righter1 Liberty Speidel
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@VictoriaMixon What book does Ms. Lamott discuss that in? I don’t think I’ve read about “downdraft” & “updraft.” #editingchat
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shanearthur
shanearthur shanearthur
#editingchat @VictoriaMixon u mentioned on a Larry Brook post a book where author got everything right. Care to share book list here?
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Megan Carpenter
megcarpen Megan Carpenter
A young woman, faced with a revolution, the death of a fiance, and birth of her child, survives #editingchat
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Liberty Speidel
righter1 Liberty Speidel
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@VictoriaMixon I’m on either my 6th or 7th draft, which I’ve been working on for 5 years. Can you say “tired”? 😉 #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
In fact, I was at a Writers Club mtg last night, & I think we heard the 1st draft of that chapter. #editingchat #reallybad
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
Hemingway rewrote one 1st chapter 50 times. #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
Anne Lamott talks about the downdraft & the updraft. She forgets to mention the updraft can go into dozens of revisions. #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
Gosh, a whole lot more than they think they’ll need. @righter1 #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
Come on, you guys. Let’s walk on the wild side. Just make something up. #editingchat
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Liberty Speidel
righter1 Liberty Speidel
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@VictoriaMixon #editingchat How many drafts do you usually see people writing before they’re ready for publication?
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M. Terry Green
mterrygreen M. Terry Green
@VictoriaMixon: Want to demonstrate? #editingchat No pressure. Subtracting hashtags and such, my story gets about 100 letters.
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jefro_net
jefro_net jefro_net
@VictoriaMixon that sounds like a challenge… re can talk to you about your story based on a single sentence #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
Want to demonstrate? #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
Although that’s the sentence that’s often the hardest (and most important) to come up with. #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
Well, I can talk to you about your story based on a single sentence. #editingchat
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M. Terry Green
mterrygreen M. Terry Green
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@VictoriaMixon How detailed a plot, outline, synopsis is necessary for developmental editing? #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
But I do get queries from writers who don’t know how to write their book & think all they need’s quick copy edit b/f publicatn #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
The more writers learn about developmental & what it is, they more queries I get from writers who know where their ms stands. #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
I find myself often in the role of having to tell writers who query me for copy editing that they need developmental help first #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
Oooh, good question. #editingchat
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M. Terry Green
mterrygreen M. Terry Green
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@VictoriaMixon The role you find yourself in most often: copy, line, developmental? The role you find writers need the most? #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
“same of themselves”: sake, of course. #editoreditthyself #editingchat
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theOffice
theOffice_LA theOffice
RT @mterrygreen Fellow writers: @VictoriaMixon is answering questions about editing. Listen in with #editingchat #selfpublishing
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
So even in Twitter, the best-read writers are the ones writing for their readers. #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
The ones nobody follows are the ones who think it’s about sharing themselves for the same of themselves. #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
You know, the most successful tweeters are the ones who are always, always aware they’re writing for their readers. #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
There are forums where you can get some moderation to keep the trolls under control, but there are many where you can’t. #editingchat
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M. Terry Green
mterrygreen M. Terry Green
@VictoriaMixon: blindness to the distinction b/twn writer & reader. #editingchat It’s blurring as we speak (tweet).
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
So you write whatever you want & put it out there on a forum, & if readers don’t like it you get trolly & pick a fight. #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
The problem with much of the online writing community is an uneducated blindness to the distinction b/twn writer & reader. #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
It’s really kind of a mosh-pit in some places. This is fun for many, but unrelated to producing readable stories. #editingchat
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M. Terry Green
mterrygreen M. Terry Green
@VictoriaMixon: Re: Pratt–Let’s go ahead & grease that slide, shall we? #editingchat Hopefully not, but I don’t think he’s alone.
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
Things are crazy in the blogosphere. The forums often bring quality down to a all-time low while exaggerating the worst of ego. #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
Re: Pratt–Let’s go ahead & grease that slide, shall we? Shoop all our expectations straight down the toilet ASAP. @mterrygreen #editingchat
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M. Terry Green
mterrygreen M. Terry Green
Fellow writers: @VictoriaMixon is answering questions about editing. Listen in with #editingchat. #selfpublishing #epublishing #indieauthor
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M. Terry Green
mterrygreen M. Terry Green
Totally agree. RT @VictoriaMixon: It is our reason for living, baby. | I’ve got to wonder about how hard we chase “quality”. #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
It is our reason for living, baby. @mterrygreen I’ve got to wonder about how hard we chase “quality”, whatever that is. #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
Hi Meg! #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
How lovely for him. @mterrygreen Pratt has found an audience with a self-acknowledged lack of some writing skills. #editingchat
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M. Terry Green
mterrygreen M. Terry Green
I’ve got to wonder about how hard we chase “quality”, whatever that is. #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
And I’d quote him again, the same quote I tweeted yesterday, except I left my copy of On Becoming a Novelist downstairs. #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
But of course John Gardner was talking about this already in the early 1970s. #editingchat
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M. Terry Green
mterrygreen M. Terry Green
Pratt has found an audience with a self-acknowledged lack of some writing skills. #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
It’s really not that hard to write up to today’s publishing standards if you’re willing to ape the cheapest tricks out there. #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
This is more a reflection of the times than of their skills, I’m afraid. #editingchat
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Megan Carpenter
megcarpen Megan Carpenter
I’m having internet connection issues (my whole area is), but I’m as here as I can be! #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
I’m sorry, I don’t know Brian Pratt. Sure, you’ll always hear people say, “*I* don’t need an editor.” #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
Case by case or in general? Case by case you get people like Hocking who learned to write pretty good & chose a superhot genre. #editingchat
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M. Terry Green
mterrygreen M. Terry Green
@VictoriaMixon #editingchat Thinking Brian Pratt in this interview w/ Mark Coker who never used a professional editor: http://bit.ly/dMH9T8
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M. Terry Green
mterrygreen M. Terry Green
@VictoriaMixon #editingchat What about self-publishing successes who have never used an editor? Did they take the long but cheap road?
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
Did you all bring your fussing, cussing, lying, cheating, stepping on people’s feet? #editingchat Let’s boogie all night long.
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
“I used to lie. I used to cheat. I used to lie, cheat, & step on people’s feet. But now I’m saved, saved, saved.” #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
“I used to fuss. I used to cuss. I used to fuss, cuss, & boogie all night long. But now I’m saved.” #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
And I’m going to listen to The Commitments for the occasion. . . #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
All right, you guys with your jelly-bean shenanigans. It’s two minutes to #editingchat. Are you ready? #amwriting #writing
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M. Terry Green
mterrygreen M. Terry Green
@jefro_net: Ernest Hemingway looks like a Buick Skylark when held sideways. @VictoriaMixon #editingchat A black Buick is so tragically hip.
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jefro_net
jefro_net jefro_net
@mterrygreen Ernest Hemingway looks like a Buick Skylark when held sideways. Who knew? @VictoriaMixon #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
I like the black ones. I’m just a bit tragically-hip. @mterrygreen giving you your jelly bean early. What color did you get? #editingchat
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M. Terry Green
mterrygreen M. Terry Green
@jefro_net: @VictoriaMixon At least I think it is Ernest Hemingway. #editingchat Maybe you have to hold it sideways?
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jefro_net
jefro_net jefro_net
@VictoriaMixon @mterrygreen My jelly bean has an image of Ernest Hemingway on it! At least I think it is Ernest Hemingway. #editingchat
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M. Terry Green
mterrygreen M. Terry Green
#editingchat Here, @VictoriaMixon, I’m giving you your jelly bean early. What color did you get?
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
Nachos & jelly beans. You just *know* @mterrygreen’s gonna party. #editingchat #amwriting #writing
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
#editingchat in 1 hour. I would’ve reminded you half an hour ago, but I was busy working on The Art & Craft of Story. 🙂 #amwriting #writing
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M. Terry Green
mterrygreen M. Terry Green
Fellow writers, #editingchat w/ @VictoriaMixon in 30 minutes. Bring questions and nachos. #selfpublishing #epublishing #indieauthor
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Andi Stenger
prettyandi Andi Stenger
#editingchat 4/21/11 https://victoriamixon.com//?p=9032
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
#editingchat test drive for the non-Twitter.
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Walter Dinjos
SillyStoryIdeas Walter Dinjos
#editingchat 4/21/11: I remembered! May the heavens open and the angels sing. I remembered to tell you guys we’r… http://bit.ly/hRsFL3
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shanearthur
shanearthur shanearthur
@mterrygreen @VictoriaMixon face/palm 3pm EST got it. #editingchat
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shanearthur
shanearthur shanearthur
@mterrygreen @VictoriaMixon Hello? Is this mic on? 😉 #editingchat
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Victoria Mixon
VictoriaMixon Victoria Mixon
#editingchat today noon PST (1pm MST, 2pm CST, 3pm EST). Shall we talk writer’s block? @mterrygreen’s servng jelly beans #amwriting #writing
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M. Terry Green
mterrygreen M. Terry Green
Fellow writers, #editingchat w/ @VictoriaMixon TODAY 12pm-1, PST. Bring questions and jelly beans. #selfpublishing #epublishing #indieauthor