Tag Archive | manuscript
What to Look for in an Editor
All serious writers need editors. Even editors need other editors. I’m sure I’ll get all kinds of backlash from indies and experienced writers saying this isn’t so, but I respectfully disagree. Naturally, the more you learn to write and improve your writing craft, the less editing you need, but no one is completely objective about […]
What Every Author Must Do
OK. Maybe not every author, but I wanted a clickbait-y title. I completed my latest manuscript during NaNoWriMo and have started editing it. I went through K.M. Weiland’s Outlining Your Novel (for a second time) to lay out the plot points. Something just wasn’t working. My introduction was too long and resembled a misshapen two-humped […]
Editing…Again
I’ve been working with an editor on my Dragons manuscript, in the hopes that I will finally get it to a place where someone (preferably the house this lady is with) wants to publish it. I’ve gone back and forth with her several times, making some major changes, and with each round of edits, it […]
The Best Choice
I’m a writer’s conference junkie. It’s an expensive habit, but I can’t help it. Getting that many people together in the same place who have a passion for the same form of art and ministry is just too tempting for me to skip. I’m freshly home from a local conference—the Greater Philadelphia Christian Writer’s conference, […]
