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When I ask an author, “What’s at stake for you here?” I usually think I’m asking a straightforward question. It never fails to surprise me when an author can’t quite articulate an answer. I mean, you wrote it, didn’t you?
When a book stalls out at any stage, it’s disappointing, but the developmental edit is where I see authors struggle most. When people hire me as their developmental editor, they’re usually hoping for some quick fixes. They want assurance the
As an editor and ghostwriter, I really don’t like the question, “Do you like my book?” That may seem counterintuitive; if I’ve spent a good chunk of my life working on it, I must like it, right? I wouldn’t take
I got my line edit back and it’s covered in Tracked Changes, and now I’m worried my line editor hates my book and I’m a bad author and this book is going to bomb and I hate myself. Okay, everybody
When you’re writing fiction, you want to do more than “tell a story.” You want to tell a good story, a powerful story. You want to write something people can’t put down. C.S. Lewis’s Till We Have Faces provides an
When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years, which you have, all that time, idiot-like, been saying over and
Today is my birthday; I am now 41 years old. That’s old enough to have a child old enough to ask me what things used to be like. I woke up this birthday morning on the living room couch. My
Staring at a screen all day in Zoom meetings can cause eye strain. As someone who works on a computer all day, I get it. Your vision can start to blur, you feel wonky—it’s not very nice. Now, there does
Support apps for writing a book are any apps that are not strictly for word processing but can be helpful in solving other problems that come with using a word processor. To be sure, the problems we’re talking about are
If you’re anything like me, choosing the best book writing program for the job feels like a big first step toward actually writing your book. Now, I’m not going to lie to you: Your book writing program is not the