Writing can be a very cheap hobby, but if you want to improve and protect your work – or move to publish it – a few…
Editing is demanding, frustrating, and essential to good novels (and short stories, and news pieces, and flash fiction, and…). Regardless of whether or not you work…
It takes a village to raise a child, and it takes a merry band of word warriors to turn a first draft into a great book.…
If you’re writing a novel manuscript, chances are word count is something you’re very conscious of. Some writers use word count metrics to set goals for…
Editing is the process of improving your draft. It’s about fixing mistakes and buffing the diamonds in the rough until they shine. A few key errors,…
Your draft is finished! You’ve accomplished something that many people only think about but never actually do. Congratulations! It really is a cause for celebration, but……
Whether we’ve just uploaded a new chapter to our Inkitt account, given our manuscript to a friend to read, or sent our book off to the…
You’ve finished the first draft and now it needs polishing, but what to cut? The following checklist will set you on the path towards the glorious…
Recently a friend sent me a panicked text message about her work-in-progress. She said something like, “Do you ever think your manuscript is just awful, and…
When I’m drafting a novel, I tend to over-write during the first round. I have to get everything out on the page, including more detail than…