Bro, Do You Even Copyedit?

Bro, Do You Even Copyedit?

Last Friday, I completed the copyedits for Accounting for it All, which is good news since the book is now out in less than a month! This round of edits was especially grueling, both because copyedits require a sharp look at the text itself, and also because of the...
Character Action

Character Action

This post is part of the Write With Me series. For more like this, check out the writing your novel page. For this installment of the series, we’re talking action: no, not high-flying combat action, but rather things like non-verbal cues and character tics. The...
Character Action

Dialogue, Part One

This post is part of the Write With Me series. For more like this, check out the writing your novel page. In one way or another, characters communicate with one another. Body language, text, telepathy (if your story features something like that)–all of it is...
Character Action

Proportion

This post is part of the Write With Me series. For more like this, check out the writing your novel page. PROPORTION Well, that was annoying. Before you abandon thread, though, let’s ask ourselves why that was so off-putting. The answer comes easily: writing...