Editing
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In 2011, Peter Leavell was one of five finalists for the Christian Writers Guild’s Operation First Novel contest with his manuscript, Songs of Captivity. Over the next nine months or so, as I watched him navigate the waters of publication (his novel won the contest and was renamed Gideon’s Call by Worthy Publishing), Peter has
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In the writing world, it’s easy to become discouraged and hard to know whether what you’re doing is good enough to catch an agent’s or editor’s eye. Maybe your one-sheet isn’t Wow-ing folks like you’d hoped? Perhaps your book proposal feels leaden and you’re not sure how to fix it? A new writing contest deadline
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Enter the Way Back Machine with me. In 2005, a newbie fiction writer (though well into a communications career as a corporate editor) wrote to the e-mail loop of American Christian Fiction Writers seeking a freelance editor to look at his manuscript, pat him on the back, and provide an immediate connection to the perfect
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Today’s In The Edit is, once again, a little different. For the July issue of ACFW Journal, suspense author Mike Dellosso (also d.b.a. as Michael King) interviewed Michael Hyatt, chairman of Thomas Nelson, author of the new book Platform: Get Noticed In A Noisy World, and the keynote speaker for American Christian Fiction Writer’s upcoming
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I started this blog to, as the sidebar says, “help writers cross the fine line between where they are and where they want to be.” One way to do that, I reasoned, was to draw back the veil a bit between the editor and the writer. As an editor, it thrills me to help writers
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In these posts, with the author’s permission, I look at their work pre-editing and post-editing—and at what I did to improve the piece. The idea is to catch a glimpse into not only the editing process, but the relationship between editor and author. Jennifer Slattery is one of my favorite writers for the ACFW Journal.
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I invite you to visit one of my favorite blogs, Novel Rocket, where I post today about ways to cut words from your manuscripts. Michael Ehret, for Writing on the Fine Line
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Sherri Stone, by her own description, is “a social worker by profession. (She is) a writer, unpublished for now and waiting on God’s timing and plan for this.“In the meantime He has provided a critique group to help me polish and hone my skills.” Further, she has “been writing for several years now, but really
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Today’s In The Edit is a little different. Today I want to show you, by using a Deborah Raney example, ways that a good editor can help you make the most of the articles you write as you’re building your platform or your freelance business. But, I do want to caution you as well. While
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In these posts, with the author’s permission, I look at their work pre-editing and post-editing—and at what I did to improve the piece. The idea is to catch a glimpse into not only the editing process, but the relationship between editor and author. Today we have another 2011 Operation First Novel finalist, Clarice James, In
Writing On The Fine Line 