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>”
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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 Edit of your novel CLIMAXES
For first two weeks of February, 2010, I’m running a special on Free Edits of Climaxes just like the special of Free Edits of Hooks I ran last August. Only with a couple of differences in the rules to account for the different role a Climax plays in a novel:… Read more“Free Edit of your novel CLIMAXES”
Free HOOK Edits
The following are free HOOK Edits from August 2009.
Making fun of Apple marketing
Oh, look! Something shiny! That’s my first reaction to the official Apple description of the iPad. My sys admin sent me links to about six in-depth computer industry articles on the much-touted Apple e-reader yesterday, which—since I am just a tiny bit OCD—I read all of. By the time I… Read more“Making fun of Apple marketing”
The passing of Buddy Glass
J.D. Salinger has died at the age of 91. I’ve always admired Salinger for his unshakable dedication to craft rather than publication. I love the line quoted in this article: “There’s. . .peace in not publishing.” Read that full quote. Read it and understand it. Read it and apply it… Read more“The passing of Buddy Glass”
Blogging to promote your book
So, my sys admin just got back from Community Leadership Summit West, a conference for online community managers. That’s what he does. He manages an online community. That’s actually what I do, too, except he gets paid. This is important to writers because of the way the publishing industry is… Read more“Blogging to promote your book”
Catching up on 2009 in 2010
Happy New Year 2010 to you all! I hope you had as peaceful a New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day as we did here at our house, ensconced by the fire by a lovely (dying) tree all lit up, towers of new books next to everyone’s chair, sleeping cats… Read more“Catching up on 2009 in 2010”