Mina Witteman – author | editor | teacher of creative writing

Posts tagged “Turing’s Deceit

Revisions

Posted on December 13, 2010

What is it with revisions that they tend to make a writer’s life harder and at the same time light as snow? I am working on the revision of DARK FIBER or TURING’S DECEIT –still haven’t decided on the title– and it goes well. I do the revision in my own well-tried and proven way. I open the manuscript and place it on the left side of my screen. I open an immaculate document right next to it, which I title REVISION. Next I simply start writing from the very beginning. I retype the entire manuscript and along the way I rewrite and rethink, I change and tweak and kill some of my dearest darlings –some of the life one’s as well I must…

A Title Poll

Posted on November 26, 2010

The end is nearing. I am getting really close to finishing the revision on TURING’S DECEIT, a.k.a. DARK FIBER. The one thing that is still bothering me is the title. So I decided to call in some help. Your help! Do you remember what it’s about? It’s a thriller and it’s about greedy Matt Turing and gullible Jonathan Kelder, it’s about the ultimate compression algorithm and a multi-million dollar deal. It’s about good and evil and about the dark that lives inside all of us… If you need more you can read the tentative blurb or a(pre-revsion!) sample. Help me out and tell me which title would entice you into buying the book!  

Amsterdam view: a writer’s autumn

Posted on October 20, 2010

Today’s a writing day. I can feel it in my bones, I can see it outside. It is the most perfect weather for a writer, here in Amsterdam. Like yesterday – when I did 5,000 words on the revision of my techno thriller Turing’s Deceit, a.k.a. Dark Fiber – autumn races past my window, pushing on every writing fiber in my body. A stiff northern wind brings me sunshine and bright skies one minute, hail and thunderstorms the next. It is as if the Northern gods urge me to write faster and faster, as if they want me and my protagonist to hurry up, and get us to Ragnarök to fight that mythical war against the great serpent. I am wondering whether my protagonist…