The Art of Writing, Publishing, and Taming Dragons
Sci-Fi & Fantasy Editors’ Blog
Copy editing is formatting everything according to a style guide and fixing inconsistencies.
Line editors focus on paragraph-level issues instead of broader story issues.
Substantive editing is the first step after your draft is complete, and should occur before correcting grammar, punctuation, or word choice.
No one prepared me for how bad I would feel potentially crushing writers’ dreams by rejecting their query letters.
If Douglas Adams, J. R. R. Tolkien, and J. K. Rowling wrote stories based on the same plot outline, the resulting novels would be completely…
Here are seven resources to improve your skills, written by authors who are fantastic at teaching the craft.
Gaining that coveted title of “author” takes hard work. However, here is what some writers fail to consider.
If you find agents and editors are not asking to look further than your first chapter, check it for these issues.
Use this one neat trick to restore balance to your sentences.
