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I highly recommend you hire an editor. They catch things you’d never notice like repetitions. I discovered I enjoy using “had” and “but.” Now I have to be careful. On the other hand, you might be churning out several stories a year. Your wallet may not be deep enough to hire an editor every time…
Multiple POV characters is like having ten voices in your head. I’m worried I got the voices mixed up. Or worse, they all sound the same. Writing ten POV characters is tiring. Sometimes I just throw stuff in because I don’t want to deal with them. In the editing stages, how do you make sure…
If MS Word was a person, we fantasy writers would drive them insane. Our stories are packed with made up names. Word goes crazy with the red underlines. For some reason, seeing those red marks drives me bananas. I can’t continue writing until I get rid of them, which is sometimes impossible. I heard years…
Sometimes we get so used to seeing things we become immune to it’s magic. Over the weekend, family and friends from DC stayed with me. They wanted a taste of NY Christmas. I’ve been living in Brooklyn, NY for three years and two years before that I’d been attending school in NJ so, I visited…
There comes a time in every story’s life when it’s been polished so often it’s luminescent. When that time comes, we authors need to stop. There is such a thing as too much editing. I have a feeling no matter how many times we tweak our story, we will always find something wrong with it. It’s…
On an unrelated note, I took my last class yesterday. I’m not officially done with school until I get my grades but, I know I’ll pass my classes so, I’m done. (Pause while I hyperventilate, weep, and do back flips.) Now, back to business. I’ve been editing my novel. This is the first time I’ve…
I love words. I love experimenting with them. My favorite author is E.A. Poe because he uses familiar words in ways I never thought of. I was blown away by Prince of Thorns because the language was gritty; it had a bite to it- same with Anne Bishop’s The Black Jewels and Ephemera series. I…
I keep learning new things about writing. I like it but it gets a bit old when every time I learn something new I see more and more holes in my stories. I’d written one novel years ago and reread it so many times. I liked it a lot. I still do only now I’m…
