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Writing your Book, part X: The Read-Through

I’ve actually written about the read-through before — here and here — and will refer you to those pieces for some of the nuts and bolts stuff I like to do when revising a recently completed novel.  I’ve also written before about developing your internal editor — another post you might find helpful as you [...]

Editing: This Week At a Glance

It occurred to me that it’s going to be difficult to talk about building/creating the How To Write Magical Words book without putting things into a larger context. I am a free-lance writer and editor, which means I am always working, by necessity, on multiple projects at any given time. Depending on what each project’s [...]

How to Write Magical Words

I met David for the first time at ChattaCon in Tennessee in January 2007, but it wasn’t until RavenCon (Richmond, VA) in April that year that I really had a chance to sit down and get to know him. At once it was as if I had run into a best friend from a previous [...]

Gone With the Mighty Wind of a Midsummer Night’s Perfect Storm

Hmmmm.  Okay, that one might be a little wordy.  How about “Sexiviolencorama”?  Short, to the point…  Not sure if the spelling works.

Sometimes when we’re writing a book or story, the perfect title simply presents itself.  A word or phrase comes to mind that captures the essence of what you’re writing and works perfectly as the [...]

Bending before breaking

I have regretfully decided to take a leave of absence from Magical Words. I love the site, I love participating in it (oh, how happy I was to be invited! I wanted so much to be part of a group writing blog!), but with my work deadlines, I’ve been struggling to keep up with my [...]

Writing Your Book, part II: Finding Your Voice

This past week, Catie and I both began blog “series” in writing, and it seems that for this week and potentially down the road, there is going to be a fair amount of overlap between our posts.  Catie and I might reinforce each other’s points.  We might disagree.  That’s okay.  Getting more than one perspective [...]