This forced me to work out the plot in advance so that I wasn’t rewriting so much.
So once I got a yearly contract, I began to just barrel ahead, writing 1000-1500 words a day even if I thought they were crap.
I found that it took months for me to finish a book. Sarah: I used to edit and rewrite my books as I was writing them, but I am a slow writer. Readers often have no clue about that side of the process or how hard the final editing can sometimes be. Do you edit as you write or do you plow forward at full steam, letting words and punctuation fall where they may? Kris: It’s so interesting to hear about the ebb and flow of a writer’s passion for a project and their estimation of it’s quality. I hate editing because by the time I get to that process, I am sick to death of the book and think it’s just horrible! I’m always relieved to send my manuscript off to my editor, and when I get it back, it takes a massive amount of willpower for me to do the final edits! If I need to find out something while writing, that’s easy to do these days. What I want to do is get to writing the story. But the more I write, the more eager I am to write than to research. Sarah: When I first began writing historical mysteries, the research was the most fun for me. What is your favorite part of writing a book and why? Kris: Some writers’ favorite part is the research others love the drafting and crafting others love the later editing stages.
Her home bookstore is Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh. She was the Bouchercon15 (World Mystery Conference, 2015) Local Guest of Honor. Martin’s Press/Malice Domestic Award for best first traditional mystery. Shaber is also the author of the Professor Simon Shaw mysteries, Blood Test, and editor of Tar Heel Dead. Her WWII historical mystery series features young widow Louise Pearlie, a government girl who works for the Office of Strategic Services, the United States’ first spy agency. Sarah Shaber is an award-winning mystery author from North Carolina. Shaber allows us a glimpse into her writing and editing process. So what better person to talk about the mysteries of craft than an award-winning mystery writer with thirteen books and countless short stories to her name? Today, the talented (and always hard at work!) author Sarah R. There are the mysteries of how the words move from your mind to fill the page, mysteries of the Muse (if one believes in such things), and maybe even mysteries over the placement of proper punctuation. Don’t you love a good mystery? I know I do, although sometimes the writing and editing process seems a bit mysterious in itself.
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