Storyville: Stop Pulling on Threads
Advice on how to stop destroying your work-in-progress by pulling on threads.
So You've Won NaNoWriMo — What Next?
After winning your first NaNo, you may be wondering what to do. Here's some advice.
Writing Advice for Non-Writers
By Peter Derk
So you have to write something. Maybe it's the first thing you've written since high school. Don't worry, it's not that hard. We'll get through it together.
Revisiting a Work You’ve Already Published: Things to Keep in Mind
Nick Kolakowski's revised trio of novellas, now titled "Love & Bullets", is out from Shotgun Honey this month. He has some advice...
Storyville: Evaluating Your Work in Progress—As Author, Editor, and Reader
It's crucial that you can read your writing as the audience, an author, AND an editor.
10 Things Wrong with All My First Drafts
By Jay Wilburn
No first draft is perfect. We all have bad habits and bad habits show up a lot. Here are 10 things Jay Wilburn seems to find in all his first drafts.
How To Read Between The Lines of Your Rejections
By Lisa Bubert
What are those pesky rejection letters actually telling you?
How to Approach the Second Draft of Your Novel-in-Making
As C.J. Cherryh wrote, “It is perfectly okay to write garbage — as long as you edit brilliantly.” Here are five tips on how to approach the second draft of your novel-in-making.
Revisiting Old Works-in-Progress: 5 Ways to Make the Most Out of It
Just because a story is old doesn’t automatically mean that it’s terrible. Here are five tips on how to make the most of an ancient manuscript that you might have once forgotten in a drawer somewhere.
Improve Your Stories By Eliminating Agendas
By Joshua Isard
The agendas with which you approach your story might be holding the narrative back.
Tackling the Dreaded Rewrite
By Repo Kempt
Here's five hard questions you need to ask yourself before tackling the dreaded rewrite.
10 Easy Ways to Improve Your First Chapter Right Now
By Repo Kempt
Learn how to identify and fix common problems in your opening chapter.
10 Easy Edits to Improve Your Manuscript Right Now
By Repo Kempt
A list of ten simple edits that can immediately improve whatever writing you're working on.
Storyville: How to Survive a Creative Writing Workshop
A guide to surviving your creative writing workshop.
Storyville: When to Be Conventional, and When to Be Weird
When it comes to writing, your story can be conventional or weird, but it has to be satisfying.
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.
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.
Storyville: The Horror of Editing and Revision
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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.
Unrevised
Know your weaknesses as a writer, and then cull them, fix them.