Editing Fiction: When to DIY and When to Outsource
‘Write drunk, edit sober.’ Powerful words from Ernest Hemingway, if I do say so...
Read Moreby Alexa Whitewolf | Oct 6, 2020 | Business, Editing, Fiction | 0 |
‘Write drunk, edit sober.’ Powerful words from Ernest Hemingway, if I do say so...
Read Moreby Kristina Adams | Sep 7, 2020 | Editing, Fiction | 0 |
Plot problems. Every writer has them. It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been writing. There have...
Read Moreby Kristina Adams | Apr 30, 2019 | Editing | 0 |
I can’t remember when I first heard about ProWritingAid. It’s one of those tools that...
Read Moreby Ellie Betts | Mar 19, 2019 | Editing, Writing | 5 |
Though I have seen countless adverts online for both Hemingway and Grammarly, until recently I had...
Read Moreby Kristina Adams | Oct 30, 2018 | Editing | 1 |
Ah, plot holes. We all face them. But how do you fix them? Fixing a plot hole can be the...
Read Moreby Guest Blogger | Aug 7, 2018 | Editing | 0 |
This is a guest post by Kayla Matthews. Giving and receiving feedback is an important part of...
Read Moreby Kristina Adams | Jul 31, 2018 | Editing | 0 |
I used to hate editing. Like, going to the dentist and getting a filling level of hatred. I...
Read Moreby Guest Blogger | Jul 3, 2018 | Editing, Fiction | 1 |
Every writer needs to edit.
Editing isn’t a catch-all activity that can take a book from patchy to perfect in one pass. Each of the stages requires a deep and specialist focus.
Read Moreby Kristina Adams | Mar 22, 2018 | Editing, Fiction | 4 |
In the winter of 2015, I was in the middle of rewriting What Happens in New York. And then I...
Read Moreby Kristina Adams | Feb 19, 2018 | Business, Editing, Productivity, Social Media and Marketing, Writing | 1 |
Being organised sounds boring, doesn’t it? Especially if you find spontaneity so much fun!...
Read Moreby Kristina Adams | Apr 27, 2017 | Editing, Fiction | 0 |
When writing, it’s important to get an objective point of view on your work. No matter how objective we think we are, at the end of the day, it’s a piece of writing that we’ve invested our time and maybe a little bit of our soul into, too. That’s why editing our own work is so difficult. And why getting a separate editor is so important.
Read Moreby Kristina Adams | Oct 13, 2016 | Creativity, Editing, Writing | 0 |
Writing groups—sometimes called critique groups—have a baaaad rep. As a member of a close-knit (and very tough-love) one, this bugs me. Different writing groups operate in different ways. Different people want...
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