by LoriBenton | Apr 15, 2011 | Uncategorized
This week on the blog I’m sharing the writing advice I received from Lauri Klobas, a friend I will always consider my first editor. Lauri had a lot to teach me about trimming and tightening unfocused story elements and overwritten prose. I still over-write my...
by LoriBenton | Apr 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
This week I’ve spent time reading over the emails exchanged with my friend Lauri, during the months I began the huge task of editing Kindred down to a manageable length. An element I’d struggled with was back story: where to put it, and how much needed to...
by LoriBenton | Apr 11, 2011 | Uncategorized
This week marks a year since my friend, Lauri Klobas, author and gifted critter, passed away after her third battle with breast cancer. Lauri and I had known each other only on the Compuserve Books & Writers Forum when she graciously and unexpectedly volunteered...
by LoriBenton | Apr 8, 2011 | Uncategorized
There I was sitting at my computer at 5-something AM this morning, wondering what to blog about today, when I took a quick gander at my blog rolls over in the sidebar, and there’s Jody Hedlund, one of the most consistent, prolific bloggers I know, blogging about...
by LoriBenton | Apr 4, 2011 | Uncategorized
I identify with that feeling of despair in seeing some scenes hit the cutting room floor. There’s one, out of all the scenes and parts of scenes I’ve cut from several novels, that haunts me still and I’m determined to slip back in between the pages one day, if given a...
