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Strength
I want to talk to you for a moment about my two cats. Felix is about two years old. He is incredibly athletic, with an easy five-foot...
kevinholochwostaut
1 day ago2 min read
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Line Editing –Tonal Fit to the Audience and Genre.
Let’s talk about my garden for a moment: This garden is a touch overgrown... The garden stretched out like an open wound, raw and gaping...
kevinholochwostaut
Mar 212 min read
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Spring Cleaning
A few Daffodils... Just as the end of the gardening year is a good time to take stock, so too is the beginning of the gardening year. For...
kevinholochwostaut
Mar 122 min read
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Content Editing
This is often called line editing, but line editing has multiple parts. Because I am an architectural writer and lean more toward the...
kevinholochwostaut
Mar 73 min read
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Back to The Beginning
Their time has come... You’ve written your book, and now it’s time to start your edits. Step one: read your book again like a reader....
kevinholochwostaut
Mar 33 min read
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Taking Time
If you planted a garden in a day, you wouldn’t know if you were successful for a year or more. If you wrote a novel today, and it was the...
kevinholochwostaut
Feb 282 min read
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Beta Reading: When to Take or Leave Advice
Worth their weight in black pepper...or gold... I recently finished a novel and passed it on to three beta readers. One loved it and had...
kevinholochwostaut
Feb 264 min read
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Editing: Back to the Start
Not all editing is created equal. Many famed authors have said that the first draft is for the writer, and everything else comes later....
kevinholochwostaut
Feb 223 min read
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Hibernation
Plants sleep, after a fashion. The sun sits too low in the sky, the ground grows hard and cold, and snow blankets bare twigs that...
kevinholochwostaut
Feb 151 min read
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Furry Logic
Did you know that sea turtles can detect magnetic fields with such precision that they can steer themselves back to their beach of birth...
kevinholochwostaut
Dec 8, 20242 min read
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Restart... From The Back
Start with your tagline
kevinholochwostaut
Nov 30, 20243 min read
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Physician, Heal… Someone else.
Most of us have heard the phrase physician, heal thyself. When it comes to editing and writing, people will say, “Work on your own book,...
kevinholochwostaut
Nov 5, 20242 min read
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Courage
Courage is a decision.
kevinholochwostaut
Oct 29, 20241 min read
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It’s Just Cancer
I want to talk to you today about an exceptional man. I don’t know him; I don’t know how much truth there is behind his words or how much...
kevinholochwostaut
Oct 23, 20243 min read
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One In a Million
“You’re one in a million.” We all know the phrase. Technically speaking, we are all one in a million. No one else has ever walked your...
kevinholochwostaut
Oct 20, 20242 min read
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Everything
Everything that we take for granted today was someone else’s dream yesterday. Plumbing. Electricity. Internet. Cars. Lattes. Indoor...
kevinholochwostaut
Oct 14, 20241 min read
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Under Attack!
My story is under attack. My story is being broken. They hate it. They hate me. Nobody understands what I am trying to create. Why don’t...
kevinholochwostaut
Oct 12, 20242 min read
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Unfortunate Truth
It is an unfortunate truth that, very often, we are the worst to the people who love us best. Our boss at work is rude or condescending;...
kevinholochwostaut
Oct 3, 20242 min read
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Take Your Time
There is something convenient about the pace of gardening. There is always work to do, but most of it is rarely urgent. Sure, there are...
kevinholochwostaut
Sep 28, 20242 min read
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Finding Focus...
Work is getting to me. I feel unappreciated and irrelevant. My friends don’t seem to particularly care about any of my thoughts, my...
kevinholochwostaut
Sep 25, 20241 min read
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