The samples below are Free Edits from two different Free Edit Specials I’ve done. The first section are edits of the novel CLIMAX, and the second section are edits of the novel HOOK.
Category: Free Edits
Every now and then, I do a bunch of free edits so you can see how it’s done.
Free CLIMAX Edit: Kathryn
Free CLIMAX Edit #6 goes to Kathryn Rushing, whose MG novel is set in the Zagros Mountains thousands of years ago. Kathryn wins a free private email chat about her writing! Setup Twelve-year-old Mirren has found her father, Kanen, high in the mountains where he has been sent to capture… Read more“Free CLIMAX Edit: <em>Kathryn</em>”
Free CLIMAX Edit: Julie
AND! Free CLIMAX Edit #5 goes to Julie Cross, who also wins a Developmental Edit for her entire chapter! Setup 15 year old girl MC being haunted by her forty-year-old Algebra teacher whom she hated and watched die during detention, but has now grown to like. The two discover his… Read more“Free CLIMAX Edit: <em>Julie</em>”
Free CLIMAX Edit: Anonymous
Free CLIMAX Edit #4 goes to someone who asked if they could be anonymous. I don’t mind. Do you guys? Setup Elizabeth is under the control of a warlock who needs to get to her husband, the warlock hunter Anthony, in order to destroy him and complete his (the warlock)… Read more“Free CLIMAX Edit: <em>Anonymous</em>”
Free CLIMAX Edit: Jeff
Free CLIMAX Edit #3 is Jeff’s. . . Setup Jeff didn’t send a setup, and the reason is obvious. Because we can get everything we need to know from his climax. Yeah—that’s pretty vivid writing! Climax The cockpit didn’t go silent, but the noise changed. There had always been a… Read more“Free CLIMAX Edit: <em>Jeff</em>”
Free CLIMAX Edit: Andrew
The intrepid Andrew Rosenberg of Seattle, Iapetus999, gets the FIRST Free CLIMAX Edit! And for having the cojones to throw it out there in front of you all without precedence—to be, in fact, the first at the party, so to speak—he’s going to get a Free Developmental Edit of that… Read more“Free CLIMAX Edit: <em>Andrew</em>”
Free HOOK Edit: Steam rose from the surface—
Steam rose from the surface of Gina’s latte. “What’s wrong?” I asked. “Your face. You look—” “I was jogging. I ran here.” Gina dumped a packet of sugar into her cup. “Not that. You look a little—spent.” “I am spent. I’m single-parenting while Todd’s out of town.” “He’s still out… Read more“Free HOOK Edit: Steam rose from the surface—”
Free HOOK Edit: Katie had just taken the first bite—
Katie had just taken the first bite of cake when the world stopped. Focused on the chocolate icing melting on her tongue, it took a moment to assimilate the absence of sound in the room. She looked up from her plate and stared at the party guests frozen in time…. Read more“Free HOOK Edit: Katie had just taken the first bite—”
Free HOOK Edit: The uninhabited island—
The uninhabited island lay thirty meters to port, and somewhere beyond the white sand beach an ambush. In the star-filled blackness of night neither were visible to the man standing alone on the bow of the ship, but the sound of the waves rolling across the wide, shallow reef placed… Read more“Free HOOK Edit: The uninhabited island—”
Free HOOK Edit: Sherman hated this town—
Sherman hated this town, he hated his life, but most of all, he hated this job. He looked over the counter at the customer and asked, “Would you like fries with that?” “Ha! That’s priceless!” The woman grinned at him. “They actually made you say that back then—I mean, back… Read more“Free HOOK Edit: Sherman hated this town—”