You may have heard already that Dream of a Vast Blue Cavern was a first-place Category winner for Best Epic Fantasy in the Cygnus Book Award for Science Fiction and Fantasy. As such, DVBC is in the running for the Cygnus Awards Grand Prize! The results will be announced this […]
Yearly Archives: 2015
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Reading is not an individual act, but a collaboration between the writer and the reader. The reader’s job is to take the words on the page and create visual images within their imaginations. The writer’s job is to put the right images on the page in the first place, so […]
Words. The English language has a lot of them. Estimated to be over a million, in fact. To further complicate matters for the writer, many words in our language seem to overlap and mean the same thing. However, different words with similar meanings can have dramatically different effects on your […]
Line editing. By the time you get to it, you’ve probably already read through your draft at least a million times, if not a billion. We all know that the millionth time you do anything, whether it’s drive to work or wash the dishes or kiss your spouse goodbye, you probably […]
Okay, you’ve tortured your original draft through countless rewrites and endless revisions. You’ve finally produced a work of art, a complete story that you can be certain is solid from beginning to end. Finished, right? Hand it to the copy editor and it’s done? Wrong. There’s a very important step […]
Rewriting was about pounding and shaping the clay. Now you are making finer shaping motions with the tips of your fingers. Here are some of the strategies I have developed over the years to make revision less scary, more effective, and dare I say, more fun. Don’t Start Rewriting For years […]