Kam Oi Lee

I’ve made it to Chapter 3 in my rewrite of The Outerlands. The core of the story is the same–that is, most of the same events are occurring, in the same order. The way they’re told, on the other hand, is really drastically different. I’m using almost all new words. There’s very little from the previous [...]

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I revised The Outerlands again. This time, I went through every chapter, every scene, every sentence, picking everything apart, editing and polishing word by word. I’d never scrutinized my writing so closely before. By this time I had lost count of how many revisions the book had been through, so I referred to [...]

Did I say I was revising The Outerlands? What I should have said was: I’m rewriting the entire thing from scratch.

The first couple of times I tried to write this story, I didn’t get very far. Sure, I knew what the story was about. There was a female protagonist who was more or less a version [...]