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Tag Archives: editing
How Long is a Piece of String?
Chopping and Changing – Revisions, Cuts and Additions. How long should your story or novel be? A piece (story, novel or poem) should be as long as it needs to be – but that’s not always as long as you, … Continue reading
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Tagged Ann Leckie, editing, fantasy, jacey bedford, revision, science fiction, Sheila Gilbert, word count, writing, writing advice
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House Arrest
Due to Covid 19 we’ve pulled up the drawbridge and dug a shark infested moat around Bedford Towers. No, we’re not sick, but I’m diabetic and my other half has suddenly become classified as elderly. How scary is that? Our … Continue reading
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Tagged conspiracy theory, Coronavirus, Covid 19, Dan McKinnon, editing, pandemic, self-isolate, Survivors, time management, writing
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Reading Writing and Rewriting
I was a voracious reader as a child, working my way steadily through the stock of my local public library children’s department. My literature of choice was anything with horses or ponies in it. Some of the books in my … Continue reading
Bladdered or Shitfaced? The gentle art of word choice and the bogglement of page-proofing.
No, I’m neither bladdered not shitfaced – that’s one of my characters. I’m sober as the proverbial judge, and doing page proofs. Five hundred and thirty four pages of closely printed text – almost one hundred and seventy thousand words. … Continue reading
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Tagged ben benjamin, books, Cara Carlinni, editing, jacey bedford, Nimbus, proofreading, psi-tech, psi-tech trilogy, sci-fi, science fiction, SF, space opera, writing
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The Yin and Yang of Writing Advice
Writing advice is great – when it works for you. When it doesn’t, find another way of doing things. “There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.” —W. Somerset Maugham: “Follow no rule … Continue reading
Editing Anthologies – A Guest Post by Joshua Palmatier
I’m often asked what it’s like to edit anthologies. What’s the process, why do I do it, etc.? The answer to why I do it is easy: because it’s fun! Patricia Bray and I started editing anthologies for DAW Books … Continue reading
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Tagged anthologies, books, editing, guest blog, guest post, publishing, writing
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Thoughts on Editing
I thought I’d toss out some thoughts on the editing process – or rather my editing process because every writer has their own way of dealing with edits, and if it works, then it’s the right way. No two writers … Continue reading
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Tagged editing, publishing, Silverwolf, writing
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Re-reading my own book: Winterwood.
Having delivered Crossways, due for publication in August, I’ve stepped sideways straight into the edits for Winterwood, my third book – and a very different one from the first two space operas. Set in an alternate 1800 with magic, Winterwood … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, agent, book, book deal, book three, cover, editing, fantasy, historical fantasy, Ross Tremayne, Rossalinde Tremayne, Winterwood, writing
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Crossways – the Process
It’s page-proof time. The last opportunity to catch any typos and last minute (small) alterations in the text of Crossways before it’s sent to print. I have nearly two weeks to check 173,000 words of text. From the writer’s point … Continue reading
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Tagged ben benjamin, book, book cover, Cara Carlinni, copy edit, crossways, editing, page proofs, proofreading, publisher, publishing
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Editing and Time Travel
Editing one book while writing the first draft of the sequel is as close as I will ever come to time travel. My first book, Empire of Dust, is due out from DAW on November 4th and while waiting for … Continue reading
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Tagged book, book two, Cara Carlinni, crossways, editing, empire of dust, novel number one, publication, writing
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How long is a novel?
As aspiring novellists we always receive conflicting pieces of advice. ‘A book should be as long as it needs to be,’ is always a good one, but it’s also generally sound advice that, ‘first time novellists should aim for a … Continue reading
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Scrivening
Jaine Fenn’s blog about Scrivener over at http://www.jainefenn.com/2014/03/scrive/ has prompted me to do a blog post about editing with Scrivener. I love Scrivener with a deep love. Karen Traviss recommended it at the beginning of last year and I thought … Continue reading
Editor Talk
A long chat with my editor on the phone yesterday to glean the changes she would like to Novel Number One – currently called Empire of Dust, but that’s likely to change. It’s mostly adding more worldbuilding information, dripfeeding in … Continue reading