HIRE AN EDITOR!!! If you are not going to publish – fine. If you are writing for your own enjoyment or to send to a few friends. Fine. Edit as best you can. However, if you are planning on sending this out to more than a few family members and forgiving friends, you must hire […]
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Rewriting
Here is where thoughts turn into a real story. When writing, I stop myself from that trap of considering how good or bad something is. The goal is to get something down. However, there is a long journey between having something down and having something that I would like people to read. This phase can […]
See MoreThe Ten Minute Rule
Sometimes writing is easy. Often is is not. It is particularly hard to get started. Getting started on a project. Getting started every day is difficult. I have found that when the project is in the midst, I can spend hours on it. However, there are those terrible times where I don’t know what to […]
See MoreMy writing process
To go from ideas to book is a long (for me) process. I think most writers have their own unique process. So what I’ll describe is mine. Find your own. I can’t imagine going from beginning to end in a month. I bounce back and forth between disliking the idea behind the writing in a […]
See MoreThe joy of writing
I write because I love to write. I love to tell stories. I love the process of figuring out a story and bringing the few ideas from little pieces floating around to a fully formed thing with beginning, middle and end. I spend an amount of time trying to sell my work There are a […]
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