You have such great capacity to capsulize and simplify process. You can take what many books dedicate themselves to, and pretty much sum things up in a few paragraphs! You are one of the few creatives I pay for on Substack; grateful for the ability to do so. I do this not just because I love your books, humor, style, voice and vast knowledge, but because I admire and respect you. What I value most in you is your excitement and generosity in sharing with a pure and open heart, with no expectations. What a rare and a true gift to your readers. Good luck on your tour Natasha, and stay well!
Thank you for such a lovely comment, Sue! It's really good to know that you enjoy Bijoux - I love writing it, so I'm glad that someone out there likes reading it!
Gosh, I felt like you were writing this post - directed at me! My writing buddy and I often discuss tenses and POVs ... and the merits of the choices we make. But I love your suggestion to EXPERIMENT and have fun with it, even if that means there may be more rework at the end. Thanks for sharing your thinking and process, as always, and I still ADORE that opening chapter. It is so riveting, suspenseful and magnetic, well done! x
Thanks Natasha - I am playing with three different modes for my three perspectives - third person past tense, first person present tense, and a talking windmill who has a very meandering, 'old wise man' voice. Wish me luck!
You mentioned that a tense edit was necessary “It's also very fiddly going in and changing every present tense ending of a verb to a past tense ending.” Didn’t you mean it the other way around? In a previous sentence a decision was made of it being in the present tense.
You have such great capacity to capsulize and simplify process. You can take what many books dedicate themselves to, and pretty much sum things up in a few paragraphs! You are one of the few creatives I pay for on Substack; grateful for the ability to do so. I do this not just because I love your books, humor, style, voice and vast knowledge, but because I admire and respect you. What I value most in you is your excitement and generosity in sharing with a pure and open heart, with no expectations. What a rare and a true gift to your readers. Good luck on your tour Natasha, and stay well!
Thank you for such a lovely comment, Sue! It's really good to know that you enjoy Bijoux - I love writing it, so I'm glad that someone out there likes reading it!
I love it too, please keep writing it! :-)
Thank you!
Gosh, I felt like you were writing this post - directed at me! My writing buddy and I often discuss tenses and POVs ... and the merits of the choices we make. But I love your suggestion to EXPERIMENT and have fun with it, even if that means there may be more rework at the end. Thanks for sharing your thinking and process, as always, and I still ADORE that opening chapter. It is so riveting, suspenseful and magnetic, well done! x
Happy experimenting, Ike! I hope you enjoy the process of playing around and that you get some great writing out of it too!
Thanks Natasha - I am playing with three different modes for my three perspectives - third person past tense, first person present tense, and a talking windmill who has a very meandering, 'old wise man' voice. Wish me luck!
You mentioned that a tense edit was necessary “It's also very fiddly going in and changing every present tense ending of a verb to a past tense ending.” Didn’t you mean it the other way around? In a previous sentence a decision was made of it being in the present tense.