My editor helped me tighten my story outline. My editor strengthened my memoir's narrative. My editor caught that I'd used the phrase "Here's the thing" 24 times in my manuscript. My editor saved me from…
So you've been writing and writing, and at this point, you want to throw your manuscript - or maybe even your entire laptop - across the room. You can't stand to look at it anymore.…
Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler's heart, kill your darlings. ~ Stephen King Few writers are as prolific as Stephen King. As of mid-2022, King has written…
The answer, as with most things, is that it depends. Kazuo Ishiguro wrote The Remains of the Day in four weeks. Arthur Conan Doyle wrote his first Sherlock Holmes book in three. Robert Louis Stephenson…
First you write the book, then you hire an editor, right? Wrong. There are many kinds of editors, and the one you're thinking of is a line editor - someone who goes over the manuscript…
