January 2012

Editing for Indie Writers: From first draft to final product…What’s a completed first draft?…How much editing do I need before I publish?

The Editing for Indie Writers series continues… Chapter 1: Roadmap from First Draft to Final Product So you have a manuscript that you want to indie publish, and you have no idea where to start.  You’ve heard all kinds of things about how terrible indie writers are at editing, from how book bloggers refuse to […]

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Story Muscle

I get my ideas from my story muscle.  Grrrah! Almost everyone has one.  They start really forming when you get object permanence: during a baby’s first games of peek-a-boo.  Maybe earlier.  But definitely by then.  The toy was gone!  What happened to it? This is a story. Beginning: there was a toy, and it went

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Indypub: Ebook Checklist

Something you learn about editing:  checklists are good.  No matter how many times you think you’ve looked at something, unless it’s marked off on your checklist, you probably haven’t looked at it that one last time that it needed to be looked at. I had to get this down quick because someone asked for it,

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