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Tinkering

August 6, 2017 by admin

When is a writing project ever done?

What I thought was completed months ago had been edited, polished, and submitted it off to agents.

Since then, I changed the ending of the story, further cleaned up the text, and added in a number of new scenes.

Now it feels complete.

But if I look at it in another two months, how will I want to change it?

How will I want to tinker with it?

Is a writing project ever really done or is the author just finished with it?

In the time between the first completed version and the most recent one, I wrote two other novels. The experience of writing those two other stories colored how I looked at the first novel.

A never ending process, but at some point, the story deserves to get into the hands of readers. No use in a story hiding in a desk drawer – even if it has a couple of blemishes and limps along at times.

Free the story!

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About the Author

Peter Fugazzotto is a fantasy and science fiction author who fights to protect the earth by day and battles his ego with armbars and slashing sticks by night. He lives in Northern California with his wife, daughter, bird and dog. His short stories have been published in Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Grimdark … READ MORE

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