#21 Editor On Board (5 March 2008)

Editor On Board

To: John

From: Bronaz

Subject: Editor On Board

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3/5/08

Watch first Star Wars movie. Black screen, then suddenly two space ships slide across it, one chasing the other. Audience inhales breaths audibly, and doesn't finally exhale until movie over and credits begin to show.

Ditto for Albert Camus's The Stranger..... " Yesterday, Mother died. "  Now that begins it for a male. Nurturing and existential rescue, over.

         

You want to write drama, begin with some important fact, no icing. Your wittiy references and asides are the icing to this story.

 Way to compare three things seperately but side by side, is to open three windows, and make them thin and next to one another. Allows easy comparison side by side, sentence by sentence. 

Put your novel on CD or DVD computer disk, and on its hard drive also, so you have at least two copies. Make one paper copy also, and put it in a safe place, safe from theft, flood, fire, accident. Save your work.

Like Robert Ludlum, you can retire from your present day job, and do just your night job, writing.

Robert, a former Broadway play producer, wrote all the Jason Bourne adventure novels, with the title conceit,  The.....blah....blah

     

The Borne Ultimatum, The Bourne Identity, The Scarlotti Inheritance, etc. about 18 of these so far, I think.,

Kudos to you.  Get yourself on a schedule, like exercising, do a little every day. Write every day. If you run dry, write about dryness or boredom or failure or fatigue etc. Things will soon pick up.

George  B