Comments on: Getting Inside the MC’s Head http://www.katrinapalmer.com/2009/09/08/getting-inside-the-mcs-head/ Running On Dirt Roads Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:15:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kate http://www.katrinapalmer.com/2009/09/08/getting-inside-the-mcs-head/comment-page-1/#comment-164 Kate Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:49:50 +0000 http://www.katrinapalmer.com/?p=802#comment-164 Sorry Betty. I didn't tell anyone for the longest time. I only told Shandrae because I desperately needed some editing help. Then Nate convinced me to start this blog and I put up the book as one of my goals this year. So people found out as they found my blog. I should have told you earlier. Sorry Betty. I didn’t tell anyone for the longest time. I only told Shandrae because I desperately needed some editing help. Then Nate convinced me to start this blog and I put up the book as one of my goals this year. So people found out as they found my blog. I should have told you earlier.

]]> By: Betty http://www.katrinapalmer.com/2009/09/08/getting-inside-the-mcs-head/comment-page-1/#comment-163 Betty Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:33:48 +0000 http://www.katrinapalmer.com/?p=802#comment-163 When do i get to read this book? It seems everyone has heard about is except your other sister. That would be me. I would love to view it also unless you want me to wait like everyone else. Would love to get a sneak peak though. Take care. Hope all is well and no more racoons go up the pole. Betty When do i get to read this book? It seems everyone has heard about is except your other sister. That would be me. I would love to view it also unless you want me to wait like everyone else. Would love to get a sneak peak though. Take care. Hope all is well and no more racoons go up the pole. Betty

]]> By: Kate http://www.katrinapalmer.com/2009/09/08/getting-inside-the-mcs-head/comment-page-1/#comment-156 Kate Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:46:06 +0000 http://www.katrinapalmer.com/?p=802#comment-156 Jenni-dishes, schmishes--you can always make me laugh. Tamara and Karen--Thanks for the tips and encouragement. I want to be finished, but I'm getting really nervous to submit. Jenni-dishes, schmishes–you can always make me laugh.

Tamara and Karen–Thanks for the tips and encouragement. I want to be finished, but I’m getting really nervous to submit.

]]> By: Karen Gowen http://www.katrinapalmer.com/2009/09/08/getting-inside-the-mcs-head/comment-page-1/#comment-155 Karen Gowen Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:54:58 +0000 http://www.katrinapalmer.com/?p=802#comment-155 Hooray Kate! A writing post! With all the gardening and business of your summer, i am surprised that you can even think about this. Must be the kids back in school! Anyhoo--what I absolutely hate and will stop me every time is a poorly edited book. Therefore, I don't think I could read anything self-published, because i am 100% with Tamara here. And with Kristine Princevalle when she says that writers need editors just as musicians need teachers. Otherwise...ouch. The words will hurt my ears and I won't be able to finish the book. That has been my problem with LDS fiction generally. Are there no good editors working for DB, Covenant, Cedar Fort??? Sorry if I am offending anyone here, but geesh!! If you're a publishing company, you had better darn well have a good editing team or just forget it. Best of luck to you Kate in your rewrites! You better send it in to WiDo when you're done! Hooray Kate! A writing post! With all the gardening and business of your summer, i am surprised that you can even think about this. Must be the kids back in school!

Anyhoo–what I absolutely hate and will stop me every time is a poorly edited book. Therefore, I don’t think I could read anything self-published, because i am 100% with Tamara here. And with Kristine Princevalle when she says that writers need editors just as musicians need teachers.

Otherwise…ouch. The words will hurt my ears and I won’t be able to finish the book. That has been my problem with LDS fiction generally. Are there no good editors working for DB, Covenant, Cedar Fort??? Sorry if I am offending anyone here, but geesh!!
If you’re a publishing company, you had better darn well have a good editing team or just forget it.

Best of luck to you Kate in your rewrites! You better send it in to WiDo when you’re done!

]]> By: Jennifer http://www.katrinapalmer.com/2009/09/08/getting-inside-the-mcs-head/comment-page-1/#comment-154 Jennifer Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:36:57 +0000 http://www.katrinapalmer.com/?p=802#comment-154 Wow, you have a passion. I'm not sure I'll ever have that. I've said it before, and I'll repeat: I think it's awesome you're doing this! Good luck. Dishes, schmishes. Wow, you have a passion. I’m not sure I’ll ever have that. I’ve said it before, and I’ll repeat: I think it’s awesome you’re doing this! Good luck.

Dishes, schmishes.

]]> By: Tamara http://www.katrinapalmer.com/2009/09/08/getting-inside-the-mcs-head/comment-page-1/#comment-153 Tamara Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:37:51 +0000 http://www.katrinapalmer.com/?p=802#comment-153 I am so curious to know what self-published books you picked up! I think it is very very hard for people who self-publish. We don't realize how much extra we have until an outsider forces us to cut it. One might be an excellent writer but still unable to recognize when enough is enough. I love that excited feeling, when you can't wait to get back to your ms. I'm different though. The best part for me is revising. Writing that first draft is super hard. I can hardly wait to get it written so I can start revising. That's why I spit it out as fast as I can. I'm a very critical reader. Typos irritate me. Characters acting irrationally without an explanation annoy me. Cheap thrills and action scenes just to increase the tension and not further the story along bore me. But mostly, the characters must be rich and dimensional and real. No cutting corners. I read a book by an author and I thought the book was shallow. Relied too heavily on plot conveniences, stories and dramas that had been done before. I couldn't get into it. I am so curious to know what self-published books you picked up! I think it is very very hard for people who self-publish. We don’t realize how much extra we have until an outsider forces us to cut it. One might be an excellent writer but still unable to recognize when enough is enough.

I love that excited feeling, when you can’t wait to get back to your ms. I’m different though. The best part for me is revising. Writing that first draft is super hard. I can hardly wait to get it written so I can start revising. That’s why I spit it out as fast as I can.

I’m a very critical reader. Typos irritate me. Characters acting irrationally without an explanation annoy me. Cheap thrills and action scenes just to increase the tension and not further the story along bore me. But mostly, the characters must be rich and dimensional and real. No cutting corners.

I read a book by an author and I thought the book was shallow. Relied too heavily on plot conveniences, stories and dramas that had been done before. I couldn’t get into it.

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