What’s Taking So Long?
Endless posts on writing but no sign of publishing a novel; what’s taking so long? It’s not one novel but […]
Editing
Posts on editing a manuscript
Revision Planning with Troy Lambert
One of the sessions of last year’s writers’ summits covered revision planning with Troy Lambert. At Daniel David Wallace’s Revising
Editing the ‘Crutch’ Words
Sooner or later in the process, every author faces editing the ‘crutch’ words. These are the habitual words or phrases
The Professional Working Draft
Never mind that I’m 65% through editing and still don’t know if the novel is any good: do I have
How Many Drafts?
How many drafts does it take to get out of the edit toward a published book? Book One is still
It’s All in the Edit
I appreciate what people mean when they say ‘it’s all in the edit.’ Of the three book series, Book One
The Fault in our Scenes
When the story doesn’t work, you don’t know why, and it’s the fault in our scenes.
How long is a paragraph?
A dense wall of text sends readers running; so how long is a paragraph? Online and digital make short paragraphs
Outlining a novel
Outlining a novel? Why not? Sixty, seventy, eighty thousand words or more. That’s your typical novel. Somehow you have to