Publication at Last!

So, after the passing of over two decades, I'm finally here! Publication day!

I started writing "The Glorious Face of Sorrow" in the late 1990s. What started as a contemporary novel became a period piece! A glimpse of life in “turn of the millennium” Sydney.

To be honest, my first draft wasn’t very good. Neither was my next draft, or the one after that. Far too much “telling” and far too little “showing”. Did I really think it was necessary to have the characters explain the story? Oh, my lord! So much exposition!

But after a major re-write over the last two years, I’m now proud of my novel. I’ve excised all the dross, added a lot of better written material.

Through this process, I reduced the word count from over 110,000 to around 80,000.

Then I began the fun part! Deleting an adverb. Adding some imagery. Cutting a paragraph which does little but interrupt the flow. Inserting a hard-working little detail which elevates the storyline.

I’m happy, now, to send my work out into the world via Austin Macauley.

And it only took 22 years!

Archie

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