Whether your novel takes place in modern-day New York City or in a completely fantastical world, it must still be accurate to certain facts, within the real world and the story world. While you should be on the lookout for the kinds of inaccuracies I’m about to discuss through-out the […]
Yearly Archives: 2015
20 posts
Today’s post is just a short announcement to let you all know that Dream of a Vast Blue Cavern is on sale! Normally $4.99, I’ve dropped the price of the ebook at all retailers to $0.99. Yes, that’s $4 whole dollars you’ll save by taking advantage of this amazing deal! […]
For some writers, grammar comes naturally. For the rest of us, there’s Grammar Girl. One of the advantages of copy-editing your own work, even if it’s preliminary to a professional copy editor, is that once you learn the rules behind your errors, you are less likely to repeat them in […]
**There are at least three copy errors in this post. Can you find them all?** You’ve drafted your book. You’ve rewritten your book (possibly more than once). You’ve revised your book from every angle. You’ve pored over each sentence in a rigorous line edit, making sure the mood, voice, word […]
As you’ve probably gathered from the last few posts, I tend to write pretty casually while I draft and do a lot of refining of language during line editing. While I don’t mind line editing, my goal is always to become a better drafter. The less clean-up I have to […]
Some of you may have noticed, a million years ago when I made my latest TIWIK post, I posted #64, then went straight on to #66, my last TIWIK post. I’ve said it before and I’m sure I’ll say it again: I’m a writer, not a mathematician. Clearly, the universe […]