5 Ways to Edit (and when to use them)

5 Ways to Edit (and when to use them)

You finished your novel and you know the next step is to edit, right? I mean, everyone keeps saying to edit. But what does that mean? You read through it a couple of times, run spell check and any fancy apps you might have to check for commas and such. Then hit...
Are you meeting your writing goals?

Are you meeting your writing goals?

Multiple books and enough sales to quit the day job – it sounds good, doesn’t it? Those are my goals even back when I barely realized that I did secretly dream about such success and wouldn’t admit that writing was more to me than a hobby. Then one...
Words of advice: write a short bad book

Words of advice: write a short bad book

I wonder if you reacted to that bit of advice to write a short bad book the way I did, which was “No way!” It isn’t my advice. It belongs to the awesome and well known author Philip Athans. I rejected the idea almost without reading his blog post (which you can find...
World Building Tips and Tricks

World Building Tips and Tricks

As a reader, one of my favorite things is entering a new world that feels like it existed, in all of its glorious complexities, far before I opened the book housing it. I feel like a discoverer of a lost or hidden world. In other words, the setting feels real. Isn’t...

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