Welcome to a new year, a new day, and – introducing – my new blog! It’s not completely new, there will actually be many of the same features, but there will be some minor tweaks. Here’s what’s happening. You may remember that last year I set goals for 2017. Throughout December, however, I kept reading […]
Cutting Extra Words by Leeann Betts
So you’ve finished your novel and check the word count – yikes! What should have been a 90,000-word novel is now a 112,000-word tome. As writers, we love every single one of those words, so how can we possibly think of taking any out?. We can’t. But we must. Not only do fewer words mean fewer […]
How to Handle a Harsh Critique: Editor’s Point-of-View
Two weeks ago I talked about how it feels to be on the receiving end of a harsh critique. It’s something I often experienced as a new writer, so I knew how it would feel. What I never considered, however, was how it would feel to be on the other side of the critique: What […]
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