Tag: editing

  • Its and buts.

    After doing some medium-extensive plot repairs on my first novel, In the Dark, I printed out a hard copy to read over and make sure my plot changes made sense. […]

  • Re-edit — ONE more time!

    I’ve decided to re-edit a book I already released. Actually, I’ve decided to re-edit ALL the books I’ve already released. I argued with myself on this one a bit, and […]

  • Change of heart, mid-story.

    The following post contains some spoilers for my future book, Night Falls. Don’t keep reading if you want to be surprised! * * * * I just finished writing a […]

  • The balance.

    After having gotten into self-publishing, I’ve seen a lot of people talking about getting into it, too, and read about a lot of their techniques and a lot of their […]

  • Hard lessons in writing: Once you finish, do it again.

    I mean, of course, that deja-vu insanity, editing. As a novelist, you’ve got to not only write the whole book, but then you have to sit down and read it […]

  • Deliberate flubbing.

    When you’re writing fiction, you have to make the same grammatical mistakes that your characters would make. As in, the same mistakes that human beings make when they’re talking. When […]

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