Editing has got to be my least favorite part of the job. Reading each chapter over and over, looking for mistakes and places to make the text more evocative and the action more exciting. Searching for those stubborn typos whose superpower seems to be hiding in plain sight. Sometimes it feels like I’m walking into …
Indie authors have an uphill fight to get their books noticed. Not only is the market crowded, and competition fierce, but a stigma still clings to self-published or independently published works as being second class. If the books were any good, so the reasoning goes, a traditional publisher would have picked them up. While that’s …
Now that I’m in the editing phase of the memoir I’m ghostwriting, I went back and reviewed some blog posts I’ve read in the past year on the subject. Here are the best five, and why: Perfecting Your Plot This post won a spot on my list because one successful writer gives his process for …
Now that I have the memoir I’m ghostwriting drafted, it’s time to get out my red pen and start editing. I hate this part of the process. I love this part of the process. No, I’m not schizophrenic. I just have a love-hate relationship with editing. I’ll start with the hate. (I always like to …