Do you love to write? It may sound like an obvious question, but it isn’t – ask authors and half will reply with a speech on their dedication to the craft, while the other half will begin “Welllll…” There’s nothing wrong with either answer; imagining and plotting a story is a completely different skill to
As we’ve covered before, editing is a difficult job that requires an objective mindset and a detached approach to criticism. It’s a difficult stage of the writing process – the disconcertingly lengthy final stretch that sees many promising projects bite the dust. Consequently, many authors are always on the lookout for tools that will make
When I left corporate editing to work from home as an independent editor, I thought I knew what I was getting into. I expected my work-life balance to be a challenge. I knew about the feast-or-famine nature of the freelance life. But I was so passionate about this work that I knew I could handle
Useful criticism is an author’s dream. Oh, how we fantasize about page after page of useful, easily implemented, tactfully phrased notes. And it is a fantasy, because try as we might, we never seem to get them. I remember the first few times I tried to get useful criticism, handing over a short story to
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