The Ultimate Editing Tool

It would have an endless number of movable, and linkable tabs. It would have a map that linked to all geographical references, and a timeline that auto-populated from references to the passage of time. When you made a change, it would generate pop-up questions, like...

Editing: Take Two

I just published my second novel. Ta-da! In many ways, it was more of a learning process than publishing the first one. Here, two of my biggest editing lessons: 1) Do Not Let Expectations Run the Show! This was a lesson I seem to learn over and over again, this time...

Running the Editing Gauntlet

As those of you who read the last newsletter would know, I promised a couple blog posts on the New Things I’ve been doing this year (if you’d like to get the newsletter, sign up here!). Today I’ll touch on one of the subjects that has given me...

Editing Lessons

I forgot the cardinal rule of programmers. DOCUMENT. Last year, I spent several months editing the work that eventually became Memory’s Hostage. But did I take notes on the editing process? Record how long it took to accomplish the various phases? Analyze which...