I have been trawling through the children's novel, looking for blidingly obvious boringness. What I did find, is that a lot of words are just unnecessary. I have been deleting them, ruthlessly.
For a small example, these few lines originally read:
David’s mum nodded and looked at David with a thoughtful expression, as if she was contemplating whether to say something more about the incident. She obviously changed her mind and looked at them with a bemused expression.
“Ooh, have you seen that girl next door?”
After a ruthless word cut,
David's mum nodded thoughtfully, David hoped there would be no more mention of the incident. To his relief, his mum suddenly looked bemused,
"Ooh, have you seen the girl next door?"
Hopefully David's mother's forgiving change of subject is still apparent, in less words.
I don't know, I think I will be at this editing lark for a long long while. What do you think, better or worse?
Interestingly, for anyone writing children's books, there is a competition to write the best opening paragraph in 300 words on '
An Awfully Big Blog Adventure' Thanks to Nicola Morgan's
Help I need a publisher for the link.
It looks like fun.
Well, have a great day x
