editing
November 19, 2009
- Hi, I'm new to this space. As an individual who worked for 12 long years in high pressured, unsatisfying office environments, and now pilots a lonely yet often fulfilling ship from my home office, I thought I would use this blog space to begin running through some aspects of the life of a freelancer. Or my experiences of it, in any event.Some of you may find bits of the material amusing and/or ...
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November 19, 2009
- So, the landscaping is finished. We did lose one nice sago palm along with the native shrubs, but a potential buyer won't know it's gone. It was a case of not pointing it out to the contractor when he took stock of what to do with our yard, so the crew simply looked at the overall result, not the specific individual pieces. Like our sago palm, there were valuable passages in my manuscript. ...
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November 18, 2009
- I'm over at Pen to Paper. And, despite much resistance, I've been guilted into joining Twitter. I'm one of the "Women to Watch" in the Nov/Dec issue of Orange Appeal. Link on my website. And NOWHERE TO HIDE has a release date: August 20, 1020. Curb Appeal: As I mentioned on Monday, we'd had enough comments that our house lacked any visibility from the street, and if buyers couldn't ...
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November 17, 2009
- I have an overwhelming desire to stop writing this blog. I'm going to keep a tally of how many times I go back and add/edit/correct something as I write this.(one, two and three) Something tells me, however, that I should keep on because there might be others out there in writingland, or perhaps less alien environs, that may appreciate someone pondering the challenges facing a fellow ...
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November 13, 2009
- Since we are on the topic of editing (see yesterday’s post), I thought we should follow that line of thinking into another area: marketing. This gives us another way to look at what we do when we edit our work or have professional editors help us polish our writing.To do this, I’ve asked Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of the multi award-winningHowToDoItFrugally series of books for writers, ...
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November 12, 2009
- Yesterday we discussed query letters and how to make them immaculate. However, all the writing nonfiction writers turn in to editors, agents or publishers must be immaculate. Therefore, they must learn to be great editors of their own work. That is not to say that all writers don’t need to have their work edited by professional editors—almost all do. However, most don’t have their query ...
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November 12, 2009
- Our contract with our current Realtor expires in about 10 days, and it's time to move on. Thus, we've been interviewing Realtors. A tedious chore. Given the state of the market, they're all eager to have our listing, which means we have to weed the hype out of their presentations and figure out which one will work best for us.A while back, I compared selling a house to selling a manuscript. With ...
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November 11, 2009
- If you want to sell your nonfiction writing, at some point you'll have to write a query letter. This holds true whether you are writing a book, an article or an essay. If you remain uncertain about what writing a query letter entails, return to the origins of the word itself. The word "query" means "a question" or "an inquiry." A query letter asks an editor or an ...
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November 1, 2009
- I've edited Tales Tell Tales, up to and including Chapter 24 today. Only 10 short chapters to go.I started Nanowrimo tonight. I wrote 2,293 words, Chapter 1: The School Trip. I plan to write a chapter a day, which means 30 chapters in 30 days. Comma Coma Boy is a young adult book about a boy who falls into a coma at night and unleashes the sleeping superhero within him. Clark thinks he's dreaming ...
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October 29, 2009
- Long before the University of Constantinople was established as an institution of higher learning in 425 AD, before Socrates walked the marble corridors of Ancient Agora recording his wisdom on parchment, the caveman was pumping out non-fiction.When I complete a manuscript, I set out to do my revisions with caveman in mind. After all, the caveman was the original author. No, he did not have an ...
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