5 Reasons A Good Writing Group Can Save You
What can a good writing group do for you? Almost everything.
Rejection: A Critical Device
Got a story that keeps getting turned down for publication? Here's how you can use industry rejection as a critical tool to improve your work.
Cut!: 4 Strategies for Trimming Your Content
Struggling to make effective cuts? This article walks you through four strategies for trimming, tightening, and focusing your work.
Bringing the Lie to Life: What Your First Two Pages Can Tell You
Using particular details brings your lie to life.
Organic Word-Growing: Why You Should Keep the Shit in Your Writing
In:
Rewriting
A look at how accepting the crap you write during early drafts can both accelerate the writing process and feed your story.
8 Signs It's Time to Scrap Your Writing Project
8 warning signs that you may want to throw your latest manuscript under the lawnmower.
The 3 Most Popular Editorial Services and Do You Need Them?
By Erin Reel
Writers have more professional support available to them now than ever before. Erin Reel, The Lit Coach, breaks down the 3 most popular editorial services, giving you the benefits, red flags and more.
The Art of the Content Edit: 10 Ways To Make Sure You're Doing It Right
By Rob Hart
The proofreading phase is when a book gets pretty--but the content edit is when you really bring the story home. Here's how to do it right.
Getting Over It, Getting It Out: On Embracing A Bad First Draft
Let's face it: the first draft of anything is going to be awful. That's okay. In fact, here's why it's encouraged.
Storyville: The Horror of Editing and Revision
In:
editing, fiction writing, Grammar, Plot, Revision, Rewriting, Storyville, Structure, Vocabulary, Workshop
It's been said that the difference between a good writer and a great writer is editing. So let's hop to it.
Transition As Metaphor
Incorporate these principles to not only transition smoothly from scene to scene, but to add a new layer of metaphor for the manipulation of meaning and theme.
Acting on the Fictional Stage: The Dramatic Method in Fiction
Harness The Dramatic Method For Character Action
The Path To Publication Part 3: When Is Done, Done?
By Rob Hart
In this installment, I discuss why I haven't been able to meet the self-imposed deadline I set for myself last month!
The Art Of The Rewrite
A true rewrite is not just editing, proofing or copy-editing, but a complete re-imagining of the work. Here’s a four-part process to fortify writers with a successful re-writing plan that works.
Writing Sentences With Impact
A guide to writing more active, more immediate, more powerful sentences that will grab your reader’s attention and make them remember what you’ve written.
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