Rewriting the Novel: Things I Can’t Say


Now that the novel is in first person, I notice how modern my language is.

It’s set in 1930, so I can’t have my narrator say modern things. I just had to cull “split-second” from a sentence (I used “instantly” instead).

I’m questioning “orbit”. I could just say circle. But I like orbit.

Questions like this are why it takes me half an hour to write a paragraph.


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