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Tag: Editing

Writing Progress So Far

I don’t know why, but I seem to mentally be ahead of the current date. It feels like July to me, maybe because the usually…

Superfluous Words

That. So. In (conclusion). Very. Just. Definitely. Then. Rather. Somewhat. Certainly. Quite. Absolutely. Really. Literally. Somehow. Began. Start. Cut. Remove. There’s a few others, but…

The Hardest Lesson to Learn As a Writer

After I’d written novel five (and abandoned number 4, because it had derailed), I was sent a video from a producer I was working with…

The Perils of Writer Overconfidence

Going back through old blog posts, I saw my estimates of my progress in a post written two years ago. I know I sound like…

Editing Your Novel De-Mystified

Editing I hate editing. I think most writers hate editing. I love the writing process, the creating. But I hate to edit. I mean, I…

The Secret Behind Writing Fiction

I’ve been digesting all the lessons learned from the writer’s convention. I encourage all of you to attend one, whether you have any manuscripts ready…

Editing your novel 1

Every writer sets out to write their novel, and thinks once you’ve finished writing it, it’s done. There’s even a famous scene in a movie…

Self Editing

Editing. The ugly word. We’d all like to think that our first draft is perfect, and that the publisher is going to instantly write us…

Cutting words

It’s difficult to cut words from a novel. I wrote those words. It felt right to write them. But I have 196,000 words in my…