Book Review: Proofreading Secrets of Best-Selling Authors by Kathy Ide
Learn how best-selling authors proofread their manuscripts to avoid typos, inconsistencies, inaccuracies, and errors in punctuation, usage, grammar, and spelling. Proofreading Secrets of Best-Selling Authors, by professional freelance author, editor, and proofreader Kathy Ide, is the essential go-to tool for aspiring and experienced writers and editors. This book includes all [...]
Author Interview: Diane Dean White
Introducing a fellow Michigander and novelist, Diane Dean White: --- Please tell us about yourself: I started my writing career at an early age when I asked for a typewriter for Christmas. I pounded the keys writing poetry and short stories in grade school on an old black Royal manual. [...]
Three-in-One: Is it even possible?
Photo Credit I've reached a new phase of my writing career and I find myself wondering: can I do it? For years I've been studying the craft of writing fiction. I worked on manuscripts, but tossed most of them aside (the plots have more holes than Baby Swiss). [...]
Getting Back to Basics – Don’t Just Write; Write Well
Photo Credit Remember in elementary school when your teacher pulled out the math flash cards? Multiple times a week you had to practice the fundamentals of math: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Without these basics, trigonometry, geometry, and calculus would be impossible. The same holds true for writing. [...]
Happy Ending Vs. Realistic Ending by Laura Jackson
How many times have you read a book where the ending didn’t fit? Sometimes, it’s that the main character is left hanging on a ledge (metaphorically, or perhaps literally). Other times, it’s that the couple just went on their first date, and then they’re suddenly married in the epilogue. However, life doesn’t always [...]