Hey, everyone, K.M. Wieland has a free ebook drawing going on right now at her blog for a copy of The Art & Craft of Fiction: A Practitioner’s Manual. You can look inside! That’s it at the top right of my page. I know. I ought to be the one… Read more“Free drawing for my book: <em>The Art & Craft of Fiction</em>”
Month: April 2011
#editingchat 4/28/11
Once again, my sterling memory rewards me. That and the big ole note I wrote to myself last week. It’s #editingchat day again, people, today at noon Pacific Standard Time. (That’s 1:00 pm MST. 2:00 pm CST. 3:00 PM EST. And I believe 8:00 pm GST for those of you… Read more“#editingchat 4/28/11”
Critiquing & being critiqued
I struggle with critiquers having a mind set of ‘just the facts’ style of writing, paring the story down to the bare bones, but maybe that’s not the writer’s ‘true style’ and the critters can’t see that, so even when the mss. is whittled down to its essence, there still… Read more“Critiquing & being critiqued”
We can’t leave fiction alone—Talking Revision
Last week, Roz Morris and I had the third of our four scheduled weekly editorial chats: Talking Prose. The week before we were Talking Character. And the first week we were Talking Plot. We’re running these chats here once a week throughout the month of April. We were deep and… Read more“<em>We can’t leave fiction alone</em>—Talking Revision”
The 3 Basic Aspects of Showing-Not-Telling
Hey, folks. It’s going to be a light-weight post this week, for two very good reasons: Last week’s post ate my brain. But at least now it’s written, so the next time someone asks me, “What’s really going on with publishing these days?” I can just give them a Mona… Read more“The 3 Basic Aspects of Showing-Not-Telling”
#editingchat 4/21/11
I remembered! May the heavens open and the angels sing. I remembered to tell you guys we’re holding #editingchat! Today at noon Pacific Standard Time on Twitter. You can go to that link and follow the conversation even if you don’t have a Twitter account (although you need to be… Read more“#editingchat 4/21/11”
We can’t leave fiction alone—Talking Prose
Last week, Roz Morris and I had the second of our four scheduled weekly editorial chats: Talking Character. The week before that we were Talking Plot. We’re running these chats here once a week throughout the month of April. We had great fun and talked about the very essence of… Read more“<em>We can’t leave fiction alone</em>—Talking Prose”
Bringing quality literature to the masses
The quality debate is of course the biggie. If the legacy publishers are already dumbing down expectations, and new writers are self-publishing too soon with inferior quality products, what chance of quality works being found? Or maybe, just maybe, I need to rethink what “quality” writing is. Is “quality” writing… Read more“Bringing quality literature to the masses”
Publishing, POD, eBooks, Self-Publishing
—Freelance Independent Editor FAQ
And now we’ve arrived at the fourth of the four questions I’m most frequently asked. I’ve answered: 1. Must you write to a preset wordcount, classify your novel in a predetermined genre, ‘dumb down’ your novel? and: 2. How do you know which freelance independent editors are good and which… Read more“Publishing, POD, eBooks, Self-Publishing<br>—Freelance Independent Editor FAQ”
10 best books for aspiring writers
Dear Editor, Galley Cat had an interesting twist for your hotel room: “According to the Midnight’s Children author Salman Rushdie will be selecting ten American classics to be featured in the guest rooms at New York City’s Standard Hotel.” I’m wondering: Which classics would you include for the average hotel… Read more“10 best books for aspiring writers”