Colleen’s Substack
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You can Expect it to be Messy. (opens the original)
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I’m about halfway through the edits that I started in early June and I’m right at the stage where it is getting messy. It’s actually been messy for awhile but it does feel as if it’s peaking. I’ve been adding some characters, taking some out, changing plots, removing subplots all together and deepening and expanding on the entire storyline. Which has led it to be a bit of an unwieldy mess. It (and me) are a far cry from the serene images we often see of authors writing at their computers, a pen
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