One of my manuscripts is Day 10K, a science fiction novel
for adults with some humorous elements. On the advice of a couple of professional beta readers, I need to
get people down from their spaceship to a colonized world faster.
The main problem was chapter 4. The entire chapter has good
writing, but much of it was getting in the way. A difficult decision for a
writer is not so much getting rid of bad writing, but getting rid of good
writing.
So after taking out chunks, chapter 4 went from nineteen
pages to nine pages. More work will be done on chapter 5, but the changes to
chapter 4 were the largest.
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