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Here’s a little tradecraft for you. Copyediting and Proofreading are not the same thing. Copyediting often includes proofreading, but it’s not its primary goal. It’s the icing on the cake that makes your story better. Proofreading does not include copyediting (though occasionally a proofreader will attempt to do so and it usually means a lot…
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When I first started writing in a professional manner, I would have to take breaks every few months. I would take two weeks off and just read, letting my brain cool off and my creative juices to replenish. The more I wrote, the less frequently I had to do this and for shorter amounts of…
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One of the perks of living/working in a major metropolitan area is that new technologies become viable in the marketplace sooner. For me, that means paying with my phone rather than cash/credit card. You might have heard of Square. It won best new technology a year or two ago. Rather than the standard credit card…
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My wife and I watched the movie From Time to Time last night. The blurb sounded interesting enough, a boy returning to his ancestral English manor finds he slips back and forth between his current time and the past, deciphering the secrets of the ghosts that still live there. I didn’t realize until it started…
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As time goes on, I find there’s a topic from my old (decommissioned) live journal that I wish people might have read. So I post it here as a “redux”, meaning I haven’t changed anything, so some of it may be out of date. Still, the heart of the post is worthwhile, so I post…
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You may not be, for whatever foolish reasons you have, following agent Kristin Nelson’s blog. That should change, for she has published the one lesson to rule them all. Read this.
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I was speaking with an agent a few weeks back, and we got on the subject of self-publishing. As has been recorded here, my opinion on self-publishing has evolved as self-publishing itself has evolved. I won’t say it’s changed, because that loses the nuance of my progress. The majority of self-published work I read is…
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I was reading the sample of Melinda Lo’s ASH and she wrote something that struck me as odd. The main character’s mom is dead and her father lights a candle that burns for three days. Now candles aren’t made to last that long, and that got me thinking. What if creating one’s own funeral candle…