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Category Archives: Editing
Update on My Novel
To my dear readers who have followed my story…thank you for your incredible patience. It would almost make a story of its own for me to document my writing journey these past months. I finally decided that at the end … Continue reading
Writer’s Support
It’s amazing how far a little encouragement will take a writer. This is the reason each writer desperately needs a support base of readers who are in love with their writing. Among these readers we look most eagerly for those … Continue reading
Posted in Creating, Critique, Editing
Tagged Art of Memoir, blogs, Brain Pickings, critique, first drafts, free edit, Maria Pavova, Mary Karr, sharing your writing, writing as an art, writing support
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Orienting Your Reader
I am currently on holidays in Manitoba for a month, visiting family and attending two weddings, as well as my mother’s eightieth birthday celebration. While I am here I am also trying to carve out some daily time for writing. … Continue reading
Posted in Critique, Editing, Novel, Writing, Writing Helps
Tagged date, Dwight Swain, learning gaps, novel writing, orient readers, seasons, Techniques of the selling Writer, time and place, writing
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Writing Update
I am two and a half weeks away from the Oregon Christian Writers’ Conference. Last year when I went to the conference for the first time–my first ever writers’ conference–I submitted my novel to an editor who said it was … Continue reading
Posted in Critique, Editing, Novel, POV, Writing
Tagged back story, Christian novel, Christian publishing houses, Christian romance, church setting, fiction, Have a Little Faith, John Grisham, Mitch Album, non-fiction, Oregon Christian Writers' Conference, point of view, showing, telling, The Shack, The Testament, writers' conference, writing a novel
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To unravel or not to unravel
My mother, who suffered a stroke a year ago, has recently taught herself to knit. I keep in touch with her by phone because we live a thousand miles apart. I admire her spirit. She is determined not to let … Continue reading
Posted in Editing
Tagged acceptance, getting it right, knitting, perfection, revision, unravel, voice
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Editing – it’s happening
I just had to share that I started editing my novel yesterday and it went well. I rounded out a scene. I did some research. I read up on plot versus character and I mapped out my plot on a … Continue reading
Posted in Characters, Editing, Plot, Research
Tagged characters, editing, goals, mapping, obstacle, peaks, plot
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