Category: Editing

There will be a series of blog posts, starting with this one, that are all about editing your first chapter. The workshop this past weekend was a great

Netflix and Marvel have been teaming up to offer some lesser known comic heroes and heroines a chance at the spotlight. They’ve given us Daredevil (2 seasons), Jessica

There are four key elements we’re going to focus on. Characters. Conflict. Execution. Continuity. Those elements are linked together and depend on each other to get your story

Whether you are writing a short-story, a standalone novel, or a series, continuity matters. Stories that are shorter or have smaller scopes have less potential for continuity problems

No matter what project you work on, no matter how many books you have finished or how many stories you have started, every writer uses crutch words. Individually,

How many drafts does it take to have a publishable manuscript? Can any first draft, not matter how rough, be polished enough to be published? If so, where

Every story has more than one thread running through it. Threads can represent characters, settings, objects, or other tangible / physical items that are part of a story.

No matter what stage of your writing career you find yourself, one of the hardest lessons to learn is how to cut prose from your stories. Some writers

Humans are complex creatures who, while generally consistent, have days where emotions swing more in one direction or another. This goes both for the characters – even if

There are three crucial stages of editing. Each phase might require one draft, or it may require several. It’s important to go through each stage in order because