A while back, I took a survey and asked if any of you would be interested in sharing some of your editing secrets here on my blog. For people who have never written anything longer than a college thesis, the thought of actually writing a novel may seem daunting. But to those of us who have thrown our hat into the authors’ ring, we know that writing the first draft can actually be the easy part. We’re creative. There are a lot of brilliant stories spiraling around in our heads. But what we want is a brilliant story told magnificently.
So if you’re interested, what I’d like to do is feature one of you every Tuesday from the second through the last Tuesday of each month until I run out of willing victims participants. The topic will be your editing process, and I’ll ask you to answer the following:
- Please share one to three* tips or tricks that you use when editing your work, how specifically you use them, and why they work for you.
- What was your biggest repeated mistake when you first started writing? What is your weakest point of editing and why?
- Have you used any editing methods previously that just didn’t work for you? If so, what were they, and why didn’t they work?
- Please tell us something about your current work in progress or your most recent completed work (or both), and tell us where we can purchase your book(s).
- If you have any other news to share with us, please feel free to do so now.
I’ll then provide a link to your blog (as well as link[s] to anything else you want included), and if you send me a photo of yourself, and/or your book(s), I’ll be happy to include those as well.
If you are interested in participating, please email me at the link in the picture below:
(*I asked you to share only one to three tips or tricks to keep each post short enough that people will read it in its entirety. If you have more helpful hints that you’d like to share, I’ll be happy to feature you more than once.)
Time to talk: Is this a feature that you’d be interested in reading on my blog? Would you be willing to participate?
I look forward with interest, on the tips that will be shared here Rachel. ❤
Diana xo
Me, too. 🙂
I shall return to this Rachel…I have been bellowed at to walk upon the cliffs this fine day!
Shirley had some amazing photos! 🙂
I took those with a little hand held camera – wish I’d taken a better camera out with us. The area we walked for the first time is right behind our house and above the White Cliffs of Dover. It is very steep in places and has defenses dating back from WW2 to Napoleonic times. I felt we could squeeze history out of the air and better still we bumped into a bloke from the preservation society who kindly spent two hours showing us around places that only get shown to the general public once a year…I’d call that a result young Rachel!
Sounds really interesting. I look forward to it.
Thanks! Me, too! 🙂
I went back and re-read it. Do you want me to try again? I didn’t exactly follow the rules.
It sounds like an interesting feature. As a poet, I feel like there are certain rules of editing that don’t apply to me so I’m not sure if I would be the best participant. I’ll tell you right now though, one universal rule….read your stuff out loud!!
That’s a definite! 🙂
I’d be happy to participate. I’ll shoot you an email.
I got your email, and will contact you soon. 🙂
Fabulous idea Rachel! I’ll certainly be reading them! 🙂
Thank you! 🙂
Good idea for a series, Rachel. I am literally looking forward to reading it.
Thanks, me too! 🙂
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