Editing Short Fiction: Five Ways to Make Your Story Stronger
Editing short fiction (or any writing for that matter) requires an objective eye and some brave decision making – here’s how to do it.
10 Pieces of Stellar Editing Advice from Celebrated Authors
Need help with editing your precious words? Learn from the greats and find an editing method that works for you and your writing.
How to Get Objectivity for Editing
It’s SUPER hard to look objectivity at your own work. So how do you get the distance you need to really hone your story?
Common Manuscript Issues – Advice from An Editorial Consultant
Expert tips and tricks on editing and fine-tuning your novel
What To Do With A First Draft
Whether you’ve just smashed NaNoWriMo in record time, or have been slogging out this novel for a decade, reaching the end of a first draft is a huge great MASSIVE flapping achievement. So before you do anything else, if you’ve got to the end of a first draft the most important thing you need to […]
Sowing Story Seeds
How to engineer a big satisfying payoff for your story with some subtle seeding…
The Magic Of Scene Summaries
Organise your shit, overcome the overwhelm, and finish your dang book.
Write Yourself Into a Pit (Then Dig Your Way Out Again)
Sometimes royally screwing with your plot is the only way to fix it…
5 Steps to Magically Whipping a Shitty First Draft into Shape
It’s a beautifully crafted literary masterpiece in your head, but miserable on paper. So how do you get from ‘pile of words’ to ‘book-shaped thing’ without going utterly and entirely insane through the redrafting process? Here’s a big fucking secret: editing isn’t just about making the words sound right or sticking a comma in the right […]
