It’s Walsh Week here at A. Victoria Mixon, Editor, with the final Top 10 Blogs for Writers guest post, by Therese Walsh, author of The Last Will of Moira Leahy. Therese and her co-blogger Kathleen Bolton have established a reputation for themselves as The People to Know out here in… Read more“Fear Management for Storytellers”
Month: March 2011
Wordcount, genre, ‘dumbing down’
—Freelance Independent Editor FAQ
One day a few years ago I started a blog post intending to answer for you the four questions I get asked most frequently: 1. Wordcount, genre, ‘dumbling down’: do I really have to? As well as 2. Identifying the best independent editors, 3. What is this Line Editing thing… Read more“Wordcount, genre, ‘dumbing down’<br>—Freelance Independent Editor FAQ”
Storytelling for Business Bloggers: guest post on CatsEyeWriter
In keeping with Dunn Week, I’ve got a guest post up right now on Judy Dunn’s blog, CatsEyeWriter. You think storytelling is only the province of fiction writers? Think again. All of life is storytelling. Even business bloggers can appeal strongest to their readers. . .with storytelling. How? Join us… Read more“Storytelling for Business Bloggers: guest post on CatsEyeWriter”
10 Steps to Making Your Author Blog a Rockin’ Success
It’s Dunn Week at A. Victoria Mixon, Editor, with Judy Dunn of CatsEyeWriter. A fellow Top 10 Blogger for Writers, Judy teaches content marketing through her blog, coaching bloggers on how to get out there, stay out there and make it worth their while to be out there. And she… Read more“10 Steps to Making Your Author Blog a Rockin’ Success”
Ungarbling your resolution
I have a question about #5 [on 5 Pickles to Write Yourself Into]. Is a garbled resolution the same as an ambiguous resolution—one where there’s no ‘happily-ever-after’ ending? Meaning an ending where there’s no clear winner or loser, perhaps reflecting the shades of gray found in real life? I feel… Read more“Ungarbling your resolution”
Judging when to use or not to use exposition
First draft work on character-driven story: 1) how to know when you’ve explained & exposed enough to complete a scene—can some parts be summarized to sort of give a gist of what’s happening? I’m familiar with the purpose of a scene, but fleshing it out is something else again—leaving some… Read more“Judging when to use or not to use exposition”
5 Pickles to Write Yourself Into
As we all know, there are more ways to make a mess of your manuscript than angels on the head of a pin. So I’m not going to try to hit them all here, just some of the main ones I see crop up repeatedly in the work of fresh,… Read more“5 Pickles to Write Yourself Into”
The Bootstrapping Writer—the Secret at the Core of Competency: guest post on Storyfix
Many of you are already familiar with Larry Brooks’ site, Storyfix, where he teaches writers through his theory of the Six Core Competencies. When he invited me to write this guest post for him I did a little reading up to see where he’s coming from and learned he’s not… Read more“The Bootstrapping Writer—the Secret at the Core of Competency: guest post on Storyfix”
Self-Editing at the Story Level
It’s Brooks Week here at A. Victoria Mixon, Editor, with Larry Brooks of Storyfix. Larry is a critically-acclaimed bestselling author of four psychological thrillers and writing instructor, with his recent release Story Engineering: Understanding The Six Core Competencies of Successful Writing. His following on Storyfix is impressive—those guys gave him… Read more“Self-Editing at the Story Level”
5 Qualities of a Successful Tech Writer: guest post on Make a Living Writing
In keeping with Tice Week, I have a guest post up on Carol’s blog, Make a Living Writing. Now, I know you guys are used to thinking of me as a fiction editor, probably because I keep writing all those posts about fiction. But that’s only after I went through… Read more“5 Qualities of a Successful Tech Writer: guest post on Make a Living Writing”