That may be a little over-the-top, but here’s the truth: Last year I roomed with a literary agent at a writer’s conference. Our first night there, she admitted her complete frustration with commas. New writers and experienced writers both have been submitting manuscripts with obvious and repetitive comma issues, and it’s annoying her. What does […]
2017: Writing, Editing, Promotion, and More!
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 […]
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