Revisions revisions revisions

glinda                maryjane

I’m on Chapter 12 of edits and revisions of Wastelands of Oz…I feel like when I don’t change something in a chapter I’m not doing a good job. I have been adding in descriptions and changing the flow of words, but I feel like I need to do more. Am I overthinking it? I don’t know but I guess once I get it to beta readers I will find out =] Glinda reinvisioned in this book, also adjusting character profiles and tools of the craft. I think I might be making Glinda a sorceress as well and Maryjane may overpower all of them and be a magus mortem Sorceress….I have come to realize in my own writings around fictional magick that the path of the witches in the novel is very grey witchcraft. So a character revision is in some serious planning now. “You cannot heal unless you can throw a curse.” Maryjane will take a dark trip toward the end gaining power untold. Also thinking about completely killing Glinda off like my initial idea was…decisions decisions.

rd sorceress                   mj

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Editing and Revising Wastelands of Oz

I’m going through the first few chapters during my edit sessions for revisions and I can tell a tremendous difference in the writing from the first chapters and the latter ones. The first few chapters I longhanded and wasspending time transcribing them to my laptop. It was a week in between transcriptions and picking back up writing again. However, during transcription, I lost the original handwritten parts and had to recreate scenes from chapters already writte. Any author knows how hard and how big of a deal this is. The newer scenes were better and more in depth, however the first chapters already transcribed seemed…cheesy compared to the rest of the written work. So, I’m going through the first chapters revising scenes and making some rather necessary changes to the main character of my book, Maryjane. I’ve stuck to the idea she didn’t know her own powers and didn’t know hot to use them. She will know she has powers but not quite grasp the usage of them but grow with them.  I thnk this is a necessary change for character development especially with it being a “coming of age” passage.I’m also doing some modifications of the original characters and make it a more original piece than just fan fiction. I hope yall will enjoy my excerpts to come and enjoy the book once it is published. =]

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