Inklings & Musings

Finally Getting Down To Business

After many months of false starts, I finally sat down to work on revising my fantasy novel this week.  (I would have rather worked on the SF, but it would seem that with fantasy being more marketable these days, the fantasy might be a better start.)  The opening was very weak and exposition heavy.  The solution:  cut all the bits of exposition, noting the point of each one, and then working each point into the action somewhere in the first chapter.  Easier said than done, I know.  I also completed all of the edits I decided on after the first chapters went through the rounds of the writer's group and got some feedback from my better half.  I promised the first two chapters to my good friend and Wise Reader tomorrow.  It will be interesting to see how they fare.