December 2009
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>Jamie- Show V Tell
When I typed Show versus Tell into Google I got 265,000,000 results.
It is a term on the lips of every agent, editor and publisher and consequently at the forefront of every wannabe published novelist, but what does it mean?
I thought I knew, I thought I was avoiding doing it, but Tim pointed out several examples where I was spoon-feeding huge amounts of back story into the text.
He used the...
>Jamie- Extract 1
The mentoring scheme works by submitting 6 pieces of up to 10,000 words to your mentor via email, who will then come back to you, usually within a week with feedback.
Having slightly trimmed the prologue and removed the character studies I sent my 10,000 words to Tim and eagerly awaited his response.
When it arrived I didn’t open it straight away.
Critiques are a strange thing, I’ve...
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>Jamie- Catch Up
Okay- some catch up to do.
I’ve sent three pieces to my mentor. In that time I have finished the first draft and gone back and started a second.
I’ve learned some incredibly valuable lessons and have reached a cross-roads in the way I view my novel.
I’ll come back to that.
I guess the best place is to start with the first piece I submitted. I started with the start. The first...