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Weeds
Monty Don calls any plant that isn’t where it should be a weed. Dandelions in the daffodil bed? Weed. Dandelions in the wildflower...
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Grammar
I would like to talk to you about my experience with editors for a moment and specifically, grammar. I’ve had four people who have truly,...
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4 days ago3 min read
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Time to Write the Bible
I have heard it called the world bible. Until I heard that term, I just called it my rules file and character notes. I build mine as I...
kevinholochwostaut
Apr 134 min read
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Dragon Rider by Taran Matharu
Tropes Done … Pretty Well? Have you ever read a fantasy novel where you knew, within 30–40 pages, everything that was going to happen—but...
kevinholochwostaut
Apr 112 min read
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Do Less to Do More
I am going to be an internationally renowned physicist, author, biologist, powerlifting champion, and gardener with a flair for airplane...
kevinholochwostaut
Apr 92 min read
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A Plea on Behalf of Science Fiction and Fantasy
I am going to ask you to sacrifice a cup of coffee, or at least the price of one. I would love it if you sacrificed the price of your...
kevinholochwostaut
Apr 54 min read
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A Funny Little Thing…
I would like you to look at the page structure of a fantasy novel below. An early segment from Clash of Kings We have a familiarity with...
kevinholochwostaut
Apr 21 min read
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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
Mar 282 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 TimeÂ
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.
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Oct 29, 20241 min read
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