Editing

Behind every piece of amazing content are several tools used to achieve it, and while consistency is the most important factor in growing as a creator, the tools you pick can either make or break your success. …

I had no clue about many these amazing Medium writing features! I knew about creating lists. Really, I never tried it. It is not too hard. Just make a hyphen and type, then press enter. Also numbers work. Just type the first number, add your words and then hit enter. …

Released this month,The Chicago Guide to Copyediting Fiction has taken the copyediting world by storm. Although The Chicago Manual of Style…

8 steps to achieve impactful brevity: Take a step back and view your work with a detached attitude. Develop a critic’s eye and be ruthless. Figure out why you feel insecure about various aspects of the work — is it because you need to get over it and be more confident, or because you can improve it? Delete stuff that just doesn’t hit. You’ll know it when it does hit. Delete more stuff. Walk away for a little bit and forget about the editing.

As I read through the first draft of my novel, I discovered a number of anachronisms: A character in 1968 was watching an episode of “All in the Family,” which didn’t premiere until 1971. Three children in the 1980s were still children in the 1990s — that is, they never…