Improve Your Writing Skills. Put Your Writing on a Diet.
You want the essence of your writing to come through, but needless words and phrases can get in the way and weigh down your prose. Solution: put your writing on a five-step diet.
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Powering Up Your Prose with Line Editing
So you’ve finished a draft of your manuscript. Congratulations! That’s an accomplishment scores of people dream of and only a small percentage of determined writers achieve. The next step is, of course, revising your manuscript, maybe after getting a critique partner’s input or receiving feedback from a contest judge or an editor. You’re done with … [Read more…]
5 Must Checks in Book Revisions
I’m in the middle of book revisions right now for the third book in my Dusty Deals Mystery series. I’m not actually done with the book yet, but I took a break from writing this novel to go back and revise a few things that were bugging me. I do this at times if something … [Read more…]
Revision Checklist for Compelling Characters
Without compelling characters your book will get tossed aside faster than a vacuous date. What pieces do you need in place? Here’s a checklist for the all-important rewrites.
How to Revise: Six Steps to Story Strength
Any of the following will cause story-strength fail. Fix them and your story will engage your reader through the end of your book and beyond.