Reviews of your writing – What NOT to do

Oh wow.  Negative reviews, eh?  In case you haven’t seen it yet, I am writing this post to link you to the perfect of example of how not to respond to a negative review of your writing.  (It’s not even that negative a review, to be honest, but hey.)  (Link via How Publishing Really Works – if [...]

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A Craving for Words

Isn’t it always the way – when I finally feel that I want to get back to writing A Thief & A Gentlewoman, I’m so busy that I don’t have time (or headspace) to!  It’s going to be pretty hectic here for the next few days as The Boy is moving out of his place over [...]

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Your Inner Editor & You

After writing about editing the other day, I remembered a post on my old blog about the Inner Editor.  I thought I’d share it again in case it’s useful to anyone… I’ve got a writing friend who’s struggling with her Inner Editor while she’s writing the first draft of her novel (which is wonderful) – [...]

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Editing – Read, re-read and then re-read some more.

Thanks to distracting friends and sun, I’ve only finished my editing for last week on Sunday evening, so I thought I’d take a look at the process of hammering your manuscript up to standard. A lot of writers suggest doing separate read throughts for different kinds of editing – an method I find effective.  As [...]

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The Master Plan (or, how to sew in 7 ‘easy’ steps…)

I’ve finally got round to writing up my Master Plan of how I’m going to learn to sew, and here it is: Take up linen work trousers – practice hemming and hand-sewing (backstitch). Sew silk cuff from Sew It Up book. Make a shift from cotton lawn, using a combination of Marquise.de’s instructions and those [...]

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The Importance of a Sympathetic Reader (or two)

I have been quite bad this week with my editing.  On some days there have been geniune reasons for not editing, but on others it has simply been me ‘not feeling like it’.  I get like that with writing sometimes.  I get like that with a lot of things, sometimes. But today I sat down [...]

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