How to Use Dialogue Effectively
Give your readers strong verbal exchanges with this week’s tips on how to effectively use dialogue in your fiction.
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Editing
Adjusting My Freelance Editing Business
Although Q1 wasn’t my best quarter, as a freelancer, the only easy day was yesterday. Q2 is waiting.
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How to Effectively Combine Conflict in Your Story
“How Much Worse Can It Get?!”: How to Effectively Combine Conflict in Your Story Photo by lucas clarysse on Unsplash The first quarter of 2024 has admittedly not been all that kind to me. With my fairly successful rebranding, I set lofty professional and personal goals. Purposefully making the decision to
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How to Use the Right Critique Partner
Here’s a few questions to ask as you seek a writing critique partner to address the conflict problems you may be having with your own manuscript.
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Ordinary Does Not Mean Boring
Introducing a reader to your novel isn’t just about the character’s external journey taking place. Readers need an understanding of your protagonist beyond their external goals.
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Alpha Readers vs. Beta Readers and When to Find Them
Alpha readers and beta readers work hand in hand, but they very much belong at opposite ends of the drafting process.
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How Many Drafts Is Too Many?
In fiction writing, authors always reach a point where they believe their story is never going to be finished because it’s just not perfect yet. This week, I offer a look at what each subsequent draft of a novel should cover, so you don’t lose yourself in the rabbit hole of fixing every minor error before you either move forward with self-publishing or hiring a professional author.
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Balancing Being an Editor and Author
I have learned a lot over the past two-plus decades about what it takes to be both an editor and an author. This week, I cover a few of those lessons.
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Niching: Editing Levels
When you evaluate your own skill set (and potential skill sets), it makes it all the easier to find the niche of your profession. It’s especially important in fiction editing. Here I discuss why I’ve chosen the niches I have: developmental editing and proofreading.
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How NaNoWriMo Changed Me as a Writer
The end of 2023’s Camp NaNoWriMo came six weeks ago. It was my first year participating. Check out this week’s article on how that participation affected my approach to fiction writing and the lessons you can think about applying to your own processes!
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Craft Books: Writing Resources
There are countless writing craft books on the shelves these days, spanning fiction and nonfiction, and every genre within those categories. I highlight two that I’ve discovered, two that should serve as the foundation of every fiction writer’s craft library.
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The Editing Process: Proofreading
The final stage of the editing process is proofreading. In this week’s article, I go just beneath the surface of this process, and why it’s so vital for authors to go through this prior to moving forward in their book publishing journey. While proofreaders focus on the smallest details, they can still help authors improve their story “one word at a time!”
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The Editing Process: Copyediting
The publishing process would not be complete without copyediting, covering the mechanical side of how a manuscript reads and looks. This week, I discuss what that entails and how it helps an author reflect on their manuscript one word at a time.
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The Editing Process: Line Editing
Word by word and sentence by sentence. In this week’s blog on the editing process, I focus on what exactly it is line editors do and how they work to improve your story “one word at a time!”
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The Editing Process: Developmental Editing
Even best-selling authors have to go through the editing process, and it all starts with developmental editing. Follow me as I break down this initial step in the editing journey and introduces the key questions to be answered at this stage in the book publishing journey.
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The Right Editor for the Right Client
Originally published on LinkedIn, I provide an overview of the services I look forward to providing as I venture into the world of freelance editing.
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