Editing Tips: Using Find & Highlight to Address Common Mistakes
One of the most crucial parts of editing is identifying your own habits so you can address them. Repetition, crutch words, over use of adverbs, passive voice etc. This is | Read more…
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Short Story: The Key to No 43
Alice tried to remember who had given her the key. The memory seemed to dance out of reach. Strangely she could remember the rest of the day, but not that | Read more…
A Tip on How to Handle Edits and Critiques
A little bit of potted “wisdom” based on my own experience of receiving edits and critiques When confronted with edits, you invariably won’t like what the editor has suggested. They | Read more…
On Author Voice vs Editors
What is your author voice? How do you develop it and bring it to the fore? It’s a tricky question and one many authors struggle with. I myself struggle to reconcile | Read more…
Know about as many things as you can!
The classic advice to writers is to write what we know, or the more accurate alternative: “Write what you know, or can research.” There’s an inference in the quote above, that | Read more…
What Makes Good Flash Fiction? 5 recommendations for writing short pieces
I’ve been having a think about what makes a good piece of flash fiction, and while I don’t think I can say it any better than David Gaffney does in | Read more…