The Casebook of Elisha Grey III will, like its two predecessors, feature three novelettes following Elisha Grey's investigation of crimes in Atlantis. Some crimes will be more disturbing; others will be more disruptive to characters' lives. Kiara Ptolmai, Elisha Grey's associate through happenstance and chronicler of his cases, will become more instrumental in approaching these crimes.
With the first pass of redrafting the first novelette, "The Missing Daughter", finished, I'm assured that the emotions I felt writing the details of the crime in question -- which is not far afield from crimes that happen in our own time and place -- are true because they were evoked on the second reading, a few months later, just like they were spawned with the initial draft.
For all those writers who are in the throes of redrafting a fictional work, I would consider taking this as a benchmark of good progress despite the nitpicky attention to grammar and word choice that redrafting requires. If it moves you while you're tightening your prose just as it did when the story first moved you to write it, chances are that the story will have that level of emotional engagement and life for the reader as well.
I wish I knew who the artist is for this image -- and if you know, please tell me and I'll add it. The image was posted on Facebook some time ago.
With the first pass of redrafting the first novelette, "The Missing Daughter", finished, I'm assured that the emotions I felt writing the details of the crime in question -- which is not far afield from crimes that happen in our own time and place -- are true because they were evoked on the second reading, a few months later, just like they were spawned with the initial draft.
For all those writers who are in the throes of redrafting a fictional work, I would consider taking this as a benchmark of good progress despite the nitpicky attention to grammar and word choice that redrafting requires. If it moves you while you're tightening your prose just as it did when the story first moved you to write it, chances are that the story will have that level of emotional engagement and life for the reader as well.
I wish I knew who the artist is for this image -- and if you know, please tell me and I'll add it. The image was posted on Facebook some time ago.