editing

5 Lessons From a Lost Novel – Helping Writers Become Authors

Learn from five mistakes that contributed to a “failed” novel, as well as important tips about how you can avoid them in your own story. Source: 5 Lessons From a Lost Novel – Helping Writers Become Authors

Writer’s Edit – 6 Top Tips For Dealing With Criticism Of Your Writing

As a writer, you’ll hear feedback about your work in many different contexts. Notes from your editor; comments from beta readers or writing group buddies; reviews from readers… There are so many avenues for responses to your writing – and not all of those responses are going to be positive. (Read More…)

Editor Rejects Her Own Story

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Six Ways To Self-Edit & Polish Your Prose

Originally posted on Kristen Lamb's Blog:
Whether you are new to writing or an old pro, brushing up on the basics is always helpful. Because no matter how GOOD the story is? If the reader is busy stumbling over this stuff, it ruins the fictive dream and she will never GET to the story.…

The Highlights

It’s been a busy few weeks once again. Although my internship is winding down, my editing duties are ramping up (yay, money), and in a few weeks I’ll have even more time to write. Here are the most important goings-on of late: 1. On Halloween I married my long-time boyfriend. We had a nice littleContinue reading “The Highlights”

Things and Stuff

It has been brought to my attention that I suck at updating this blog. Honestly, I’ve been pretty busy for the past couple of months, and the last month in particular. So here’s a quick recap of everything that’s been going on since my last post. 1. I took over the “Doctor Who Project” columnContinue reading “Things and Stuff”

No Wonder My Nose Keeps Bleeding…

A long weekend is nearly upon me (hooray for a day job that follows the federal holiday schedule), to be filled with thesis revisions and progress on the five short stories currently brewing. (One is for a dieselpunk anthology put out by the fine folks at Twit Publishing, but that’s not due until the endContinue reading “No Wonder My Nose Keeps Bleeding…”