Excited to report that representation has been found
for THE LONG REACH OF THE ANCIENT GODS!
Watch this space! And wish us luck!
Tracy Crow Literary Agency, LLC
(727) 742-8346
tracy@tracycrow.com
for THE LONG REACH OF THE ANCIENT GODS!
Watch this space! And wish us luck!
Tracy Crow Literary Agency, LLC
(727) 742-8346
tracy@tracycrow.com
"I revise a lot. I write thirty, forty, fifty drafts of every story. There are a few, a very few, exceptions. Every now and then I just scribble down a story and I’m done with it. That has happened maybe three or four times in my life. And, really, those times make all the rest of my work more difficult.
My revision process characteristically involves the gradual, draft-by-draft casting off of the intellectual ideas that got me going, permitting the narrative to find an independent life of its own. The decisions I make while revising tend to be related to specific matters of craft—investigating a specific character, sharpening dialogue, reworking sentences to make them resonant and pleasing to the ear. If I can write a better sentence, I’ll do so even if the revised sentence changes something essential in the story. All of which is to say: if I feel constrained by the ideas that produced the particular draft, I will give up those ideas. Of course, I save every draft. They’re all floating there in my computer like little life rafts. It’s rare that I go back to an earlier draft, but having them there permits me to attempt wild revisions."