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…
People will judge a book by its cover, and it’s interior. I touched on this in the post What Does Your Cover Say? How do you escape the DIY look most self-published books have. Well, you can hire a professional cover designer. For some, that’s not realistic. I don’t have the money to keep going to…
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…
