Year-End Review 2024: An Honest Accounting
With 2024 coming to a close, it’s about that time for a brutally honest year-end review for my business.
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Self-Editing Tools for Part-time Queer Romance Authors
Self-Editing Tools for Part-time Queer Romance Authors Photo by Thirdman on Pexels Self-editing tools occasionally get a bad rap. However, as a skill, self-editing in itself is vital for queer romance writers to home. Done effectively, it can be labor-intensive. When you find out all that’s involved, not just the terms
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Creating Writing Spaces for Queer Romance Authors
Residencies, retreats, and conferences abound in the publishing world. Very few of them are dedicated to queer authors writing queer romance. I touch on a few different options that can tangibly change this.
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How to Create Character Depth Through Inner Monologue
Inner monologue shows who characters are on the inside. Here’s three tips on building more well-rounded characters using their inner thoughts.
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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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Give Your Characters (and Yourself) A Break
Resting isn’t just for writers to put aside their manuscripts. Characters need to put aside their worries for a time, to remember why they’re in the fight in the first place.
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How to Write Your Story in Reverse
Organizing your story from the end to the beginning connects events in a way that your drafting (and especially your revising) stages become easier to reflect on one word at a time.
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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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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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