Inside the Mind of a Snowflaker: Secrets They Won’t Tell You
Geoff: Oh, the rewrite! I hit a serious block here. One of my problems was that I read so much about the dreaded rewrite that I was expecting it to be a major ordeal. But as I read over my first draft, there weren’t a lot of major issues. I realized I had to make my protagonist more active (a typical issue for first-time novelists) but there were no major structural issues in the story – thanks to all the planning I’d done and thanks to snowflake. Eventually I made the minor changes and surface-level fixes and then gave the manuscript to an uncle who is a retired journalist and editor. I had the first inkling that the book might be good when he told me that his plan had been to read it slowly and edit as he went, but that after a few chapters he abandoned that approach and read it quickly because he just had to know what would happen next!
