About the process of writing Tumbleweed, thoughts, excerpts, cuts.
Making cuts on a book that you thought was complete is absolute torture. In 1948, the Atkins family, Luke, Grace and their three children — Carl, 10; Darla 6; and Nancy 4, travels south in their 1937 Chevy down Oklahoma State Highway 18 toward Chandler where they will turn onto Route 66 and head …
I’m finding this edit pass of my book to be extremely hard. When I first started this book I thought I’d be lucky to come up with an acceptable number of words for a novel. Turns out I have the opposite problem. I ended up with 129,000 words, which I cut to 124,000 words but …
Well, I’m finally starting the final pass through my novel, which I’m now calling “Tumbleweed.” This pass will be for final cuts. The novel is just shy of 129,000 words and I’m hoping to get it to under 100,000. So, I think I am going to lose some scenes I love. Steven King says that …
