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Spare parts

August 7, 2023 ~ dhounam ~ Leave a comment

Rewriting is like emergency surgery: you lay the mangled body out and prod it, limb by limb, trying to decide what can be salvaged and what needs to be amputated...

The first sentence, part 2: Pariah

January 28, 2016June 13, 2024 ~ dhounam ~ 1 Comment

Any sorcerer will tell you: once there’s a demon in the room, all bets are off

The crap read

January 6, 2016August 21, 2022 ~ dhounam ~ Leave a comment

It’s the read-through where you realise that this book is a complete and utter disaster and nobody in their right mind could possibly get even to the bottom of the first page…

A monster rewrite

June 1, 2014August 21, 2022 ~ dhounam ~ Leave a comment

Like Frankenstein’s monster, it will shamble to its feet and start to move in a sinister fashion… until it falls over a chair

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