by Kristin | Jun 12, 2019 | Book Review, Editing
AT A GLANCE: Genre: Writing skills, creative writing, reference Length: 136 pages Release: 7/14/2014 Cost: $3.99 on Kindle, $11.39 paperback NOTES: Highly recommended for fiction writers How to Write Dazzling Dialogue: The Fastest Way to Improve Any Manuscript by...
by Kristin | Apr 7, 2019 | Camp NaNoWriMo, Editing, This Book is a Disaster
If you’ve followed me at all, you know that I love NaNoWriMo: I’ve participated five times and won (wrote 50k+ words) three times. I’ve heard about Camp NaNoWriMo a few times, but never really looked into it. From what I had heard, it was ore for...
by Kristin | Mar 11, 2019 | Book Review, Editing
AT A GLANCE: Genre: Books for Writers, Editing, Reference, Writing Books Length: 292 pages Released: 4/1/2006 Excellent book for teaching yourself to edit your own work. Highly recommended. Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself Into Print by Renni...
by Kristin | Jan 29, 2019 | Editing, Publishing Process, This Book is a Disaster, writing lessons, Zombie Love
I don’t find it too difficult to write a first draft of a novel. It’s a fun challenge to explore the story and characters, and the feeling of writing 50k+ words is incredible. If fact, I’ve now written 3 first drafts, but none of my books are...
by Kristin | Jul 2, 2018 | Cut Scenes, Editing, Zombie Love
Carl sighed deeply, thinking about Sarah. He had been dying to ask her out for quite some time, but, sadly, he was a coward. He’d been on dates before. He’d asked out women before, of course. Well, hesitantly. Still! He’d jumped that hurdle before – several times,...
by Kristin | Jun 17, 2018 | Editing, Novel Excerpts, Zombie Love
I was able to spend a good amount of time editing this weekend and got stuck on a minor detail, so I asked my husband. I needed a suggestion for a beater car for my main character. He suggested a Toyota Corolla – perfect (yes, I am aware that the car I have...
