Tag: editing tips
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Don’t be lazy; of it needs to be fixed, it needs to be fixed (oh look, it’s me talking about the woes of editing again)
So I was going to do a Father’s Day themed post, but then like all the father characters I could think of were like, Mando (I actually thought of a lot more, like Stoick, Hawkeye, Tony Stark, etc. But they were all from movies, and I was like, “do fathers even EXIST in books? Like…
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Saturday Morning Post, Vol. 7
Good morning. I hope everyone has not lost their minds yet. If you have, you have my deepest sympathy. Enough of virus talk though. I printed out Lily (PAUSE. Ok, so Monday morning I printed out Lily. It was 8:00 am, a lovely morning. I was in a good, benevolent mood *narrator: but it didn’t…
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Ways to See Your Novel with Fresh eyes
You’re deep in the well of editing your novel, slogging through the mud of run-on sentences and plot holes. The only problem is, you’ve been slogging through the mud for a year, or maybe years, maybe even EONS. You’ve read the book inside and out. You know there are problems, but you just can’t see…
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Round 500 of Edits and Things I’ve Learned
I honestly I have no idea how many drafts of Silver I have gone through. It’s not something I have ever kept track of, but I’ve been working on it for three years so there’s that. But I came here to say I have started yet another draft. BUM BUM BUM. After I came back…
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Don’t Try and Fix It (I’m not talking about leaking roofs or anything)
This happens to me a lot when I’m editing my novel(s), and I’m sure this happens to other writers: There’s that scene, that dialogue, that character that just isn’t working for you. You hate it. You’ve tried this, you’ve tried that. You’ve worked it over and over again, mulled over it, tried to push forward,…
Bernadette Benda 