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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]