Category: Editing Services

Last week I talked to a friend I hadn’t seen in awhile who’s writing a memoir. She told me she was having a lot of trouble with it—she can’t make herself write about a particular incident she seriously needs to write about. She asked me if I had any advice:… Read more“2 Tricks for Breaking Writer’s Block in One Day”

Party-hats and whistles for everyone! Our own Lisa Mercado-Fernandez has just self-published her debut novel, The Shoebox, through Abbott Press. The Shoebox has been a labor of love for Lisa for years. She was one of my first editing clients and has remained one of my most dedicated. All through… Read more“<em>The Shoebox</em>—debut novel, by my editing client Lisa Mercado-Fernandez”

Now that we’ve got that out of the way, let’s talk about you guys. . .those who take this craft seriously, who feel in your souls the joy of writing, who are this generation’s future of great literature. I’m going to shoop you on over to a post even more… Read more“6 Personalities Who Will <i>Succeed</i> as Writers”

Last month we talked about the wonders of being writers—how this craft gives us the tools to break through to the other side of reality, to soar on handmade wings, to create everything we could ever have longed to create in this life. So this week let’s talk a little… Read more“6 Personalities Who Will Fail as Writers”

This month we’re talking specifics: all the ways in which we as writers can make life different. Last week we got into 8 weird places to put our characters. We talked the week before about 13 surprising ways to add depth to genre stories, and the week before that about… Read more“5 Things to Celebrate About Finishing a Draft”

This month we’re talking specifics: all the ways in which we can make life different as writers. We’ve talked about 13 surprising ways to add depth to genre stories, and the things we writers know that non-writers don’t. But you know what’s really hard? Sitting at your desk day in… Read more“8 Places to Look for Your Characters”

This month we’re talking specifics: all the ways in which we can make life different as writers. We talked last week about the things we writers know that non-writers don’t. Now let’s talk about ways to add layering to genre in order to snap your story right into focus for… Read more“13 Surprising Ways to Add Depth to a Story”

You know that we talk here all the time about why we do this work we do, what inspires this madness, how writing makes our lives so much more alive. So this month let’s talk specifics. We’ll start off with the things you know that no one else knows: What… Read more“21 Things Writers Know that Non-Writers Don’t”

A few years ago, I had some extra time one month so I started a weekly Twitter conversation that I called—for no particular reason—#editingchat. It was just a bunch of us who got together every week to talk about certain issues I see a lot in my editing work. And… Read more“Premise Development: from Idea to Story”

I’m not here this week, which is why you can’t see me right now. But that doesn’t mean the conversation won’t go on. We’ve been talking this month about How You First Got into Writing and How Many Degrees of Separation You Are from Your Literary Idols. And today I’m… Read more“What Does Writing Mean to You?”