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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...
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Mar 212 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...
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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....
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Mar 33 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...
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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....
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Feb 223 min read
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Restart... From The Back
Start with your tagline
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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,...
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Nov 5, 20242 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...
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Oct 20, 20242 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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Editing 104: Why to Consider Architectural Editing
After the last post, a question was posed: why should we consider doing it this way? Today, I want to spend some time answering that...
kevinholochwostaut
Aug 8, 20244 min read
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Editing 103: The First Passes
You finished a draft of your novel. Congratulations are in order! Let’s talk about the next steps. Whenever you choose to edit, remember...
kevinholochwostaut
Aug 1, 20243 min read
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Editing 102: When to Edit?
When should you edit your work? Much like how you should write your book, there is no right answer. There are many options, and you need...
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Jul 25, 20243 min read
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Editing 101: Part I
It has taken me two years of concerted effort, reading several books, listening to many podcasts, and writing multiple novels and short...
kevinholochwostaut
Jun 20, 20243 min read
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What's Your Percentage?
How much negativity in your feedback can you stand? 10%... 20%? 90%? Every writer needs negative criticism. We need to be told no. We...
kevinholochwostaut
Jun 13, 20242 min read
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Perspective
Who you link to for a Point of View (POV) is extremely important in storytelling. I am going to give an example of a very short piece...
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Jun 6, 20245 min read
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Dialogue: When to Shut up
We have talked before about good and bad dialogue. In summary, bad dialogue is dialogue that is long-winded, generic, tells us nothing,...
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Jun 1, 20242 min read
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Dialogue: Filler Words
Crafting dialogue that sounds like real speech while still being purposeful and engaging can be difficult. Real conversations often...
kevinholochwostaut
May 24, 20242 min read
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Dueling Dialogue
We have talked about dialogue tags, action tags, and the setting dialogue inside of a larger context of the tale. For the moment I want...
kevinholochwostaut
May 16, 20244 min read
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Talking about Singing
In novels, song and verse are, or can be, a kind of dialogue that elevates the piece. In real life throughout human history we have sung....
kevinholochwostaut
May 11, 20244 min read
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Bad Dialogue: Case Study 1
I will never review a bad book on my site, because there is enough negativity in the world, and to be frank, I know how hard it is to...
kevinholochwostaut
May 3, 20243 min read
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