I want to read about...
Choose a category
Character
Writing Advice
Editing
Inspiration
Literary Agents
Writing Productivity
Genre
Querying
Dialogue
Publishing
Self-Publishing
Point of View
Voice
Marketing
NYBE Authors
Plot
Memoir
Non-Fiction
Genre Specific
Writing Business
Inside an Edit: Line Editing
When editors talk about polishing sentences, making them smoother, what do they mean? How do you streamline prose with a line edit?...
Read More
Inside an Edit: Non-Fiction Structural Changes
Paul Engle was told that he needed to restructure his book and turn it into a straight biography....
Read More
What is the Difference Between Copyediting and Line Editing?
What do you need -- an edit or a copyedit? Many authors don’t fully grasp the difference....
Read More
Author Interview: From "Unsalable" to Book Deal
Read More
Limits of Self-Editing
Read More
Professional Editors vs Friends
You have a friend who reads constantly, so why shouldn't he edit your manuscript? What's the difference between him and ...
Read More
A Guide to Copyediting Marks
What do these weird marks strewn all over my beautifully typed pages mean?...
Read More
That's a Beautiful Sentence. Cut it.
As Georges Simenon edited his work, if he came across an especially beautiful sentence, he did something very odd....
Read More
‹
›