//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Like most things, your blog needs a little tender, loving care once in a while. Most of us are so focused on adding valuable content that we often don’t pay much attention to what is already there. Here’s the news: You need some blog maintenance. We all do. Blogs… Read More Blog Maintenance for Beginners
A big subject in the indie/self-publishing world, the general consensus is that you should hire an editor to look at your work much the same as if you had been taken on by a “proper” publishing house. Before thinking whether to hire an editor or not, every indie writer and self-publisher should ask some searching… Read More Should indie writers hire an editor?
Marti McKenna is a writer/editor living and working in Seattle, Washington. Her short fiction has appeared in Tomorrow magazine and More Amazing Stories anthology. A 22-year computer game industry vet, she’s currently busy managing the Writing Team at En Masse Entertainment and writing an urban fantasy YA novel. I tend to be a fairly seat-of-the-pants… Read More Invaluable editing tips by Marti McKenna
So you’ve written a novel, have you? Really? Have you? And there it sits: you’ve printed it out, 400 or so pages of “finished” manuscript. It’s a beautiful thing isn’t it? You’ve poured your heart and soul into writing this latter day Dickens classic; stayed up late, consumed generous quantities of coffee and wine in… Read More Writers need an editor
The other day, I found myself writing “new innovations” without thinking. I’ll be saying stuff like “very unique” next. Seems to me, I’m beginning to lose my touch. I wonder if my drink-induced brain damage is beginning to take effect. Or maybe I’m writing too much. I nearly wrote “just writing” then. I have a… Read More Good copy: Trimming your prose
