Grab your scissors and cut these elements from your story

Posted on 04/01/2019 at 03:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Here’s a handy checklist to keep in mind the next time you revise your work. Jordan Rosenfeld, author of How to Wr...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Editing, Jane Friedman

Researcher breaks down beta-reader usage

Posted on 03/20/2019 at 09:03 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Most pieces on beta readers (including one we shared from Writer’s Digest) focus on how to choose them and make th...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Editing, Jane Friedman, Writing advice

Adapt your book for audio before it's even published

Posted on 03/18/2019 at 09:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Don’t hate us, but we have another type of editing to recommend: editing for audio production. Jules Horne writes...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Audiobook, Editing, Joanna Penn

5 tips for improving your writing and self-editing

Posted on 03/15/2019 at 03:00 PM by Guest Author

Today’s guest post on improving your writing and self-editing comes from Chloe Bennet. Editing your own work...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Editing, Guest writer, Writing advice

How authors CAN edit their own manuscripts

Posted on 03/12/2019 at 12:44 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Kristen Lamb knows editors — especially good ones, or ones called to do heavy lifting — aren’t cheap....

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Editing, Writing advice

Six ways to illustrate a character's accent

Posted on 02/25/2019 at 03:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Louise Harnby has a polite suggestion to authors seeking to convey accents in their works: Don’t try to use phonet...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Characters, Editing, Writing advice

How to write a relatively smooth rough draft

Posted on 02/25/2019 at 11:07 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

It’s unrealistic to expect the first version of your story (or, really, anything) to be perfect, but that doesn&rs...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Editing, Writing advice

The ABCs of picking a beta reader

Posted on 02/20/2019 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

When LS Hawker first realized she’d need to use beta readers to prepare two manuscripts in twelve months, she cert...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Editing, Writer's Digest

How to keep a grammar god happy

Posted on 02/07/2019 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Benjamin Dreyer has spent nearly three decades in the copy-editing field, so unsurprisingly he has more than a few stron...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Editing, Language, The New York Times

Ten tips for revising your own novel

Posted on 01/30/2019 at 09:27 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

There’s only so much effective editing that one can do to one’s own work. That, of course, doesn’t mea...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Editing, Joanna Penn