The hardest part about writing a novel is to fishish. – Ernest Hemmingway I began this novel when our oldest daughter was 1. I’m still not done. In a month, she’s headed to high-school. When she was done eating, she’d wave her hands and say, “Fishished!” She wasn’t, of course, but that didn’t matter. She had important things to do.
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This is a great, power-packed and quick-read resource from copyeditor and writer Blake Atwood. And I’m strongly considering giving it a place in my highly-recommended resources. It’s the book I’d like to have written if I wasn’t so busy coaching and editing books. Oh, it’s also FREE. (But you know, tip how you’d want to be tipped.) Check it out!
There’s a misconception I’d like to put to rest. Freelance editors are not expendable. Freelance content editors are the unsung heroes of publishing. Though it sounds like I’m tooting my own horn, I’m not. And this idea may not make me popular among my industry friends and colleagues. Yet as publishing continues to change, I see too many good writers, mid-listers and professional authors being
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It may come as a shock, but I’m easily distractible. It’s not something I’m proud of. Especially knowing how much my work depends on writers showing up and keeping up despite the battering hurricane of demands and requests that fly in through every open window. It can grow dark quickly underneath the pile of debris atop the little flame of
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This is an experiment for a class I’m teaching Feb 1: The inaugural 30-Day YWG Story Course at Facebook. Since I’m teaching it, I figured I’d try a taste of my own medicine… Just 5 minutes together, uninterrupted, in succession. It seems like a luxury. A luxury I shouldn’t crave and yearn for like homemade lemonade in the desert. I
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