Can you get every word right in a whole damn book? Can you? Of course you can uphold standards of precision, clarity, and accuracy in a sentence. Or a page. Or a poem. Or a piece of flash fiction if there’s a $1,000 prize involved. Or a speech at a wedding. Or a cover letter…
Tag: editing
Busy, Busy, Busy! (quote from Professor Hinkle’s bunny)
Okay, the holidays are over. New Year’s resolutions are done (and I mean done, as in missed, forgotten, totally not going to happen already). Time to get my act in gear. Yep. Time to do that. Starting tomorrow. Or maybe this weekend will be better because, you know, I’ll have more time to get it…
Rocky Mountain Writer #108
Pat Stoltey & Wishing Caswell Dead Pat Stoltey’s fourth novel comes out in just a few short weeks (Dec. 20) and it’s been quite a ride. Revised and revised some more, Pat says that one point she realized she had written the life out of her characters. So she backed up and started over again…
Rocky Mountain Writer #92
Heather Webb & Deep Revision “Deep Revision – Making the Good Even Better” is the title of a master class being taught by Heather Webb at the RMFW Colorado Gold conference in September. On the podcast, Heather talks about the topics she’ll cover in those four hours of in-depth learning. Heather also gives us a…
What Editing with an Agent is Like
If you’ve been following me here on this blog (somewhat unlikely since it’s been all of four months!), then you’ll know that I just recently (October) got my very first agent for my very first book, Deity Six. But what I haven’t told you yet is what the editing process has been like so far….