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52 Weeks of Editing: Week 10—The One-Year Anniversary of My Autism Diagnosis And A Battle In A…

52 Weeks of Editing: Week 10—The One-Year Anniversary of My Autism Diagnosis And A Battle In A…

I write to you now from the middle of a battle. Somewhere deep in a forest, I’m pitted against some awesome monster, a creature of green…
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52 Weeks of Editing: Week 9—Six Steps to a Process for Managing Writer’s Block (i.e.,

52 Weeks of Editing: Week 9—Six Steps to a Process for Managing Writer’s Block (i.e.,

Oh, at last! A good week. It feels a little dangerous to say that, as if the gods will notice and dump something awful on me. But even at a…
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52 Weeks of Editing: Week 8—An Unexpected Direction: Exploring the Roots of Writer’s Block

52 Weeks of Editing: Week 8—An Unexpected Direction: Exploring the Roots of Writer’s Block

Author’s note: Apologies for the delay in getting this out. You can catch episodes every Friday on the blog.
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52 Weeks of Editing: Week 7—What I’m Talking About When I Talk About Writer’s Block

52 Weeks of Editing: Week 7—What I’m Talking About When I Talk About Writer’s Block

Last week, one of my favourite blogs dropped this article into my inbox. At the time, I was having A Week Of It, so I didn’t have time to…
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52 Weeks of Writing: Week 6—Using Plottr and World Anvil’s Chronicles Together

52 Weeks of Writing: Week 6—Using Plottr and World Anvil’s Chronicles Together

I’m writing this while being interrupted at regular intervals by the workers replacing our roof. It’s been a week. A real week. I’ve had…
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52 Weeks of Editing: Week 5—Editing Through The Overwhelm

52 Weeks of Editing: Week 5—Editing Through The Overwhelm

A story about having too many things to do.
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52 Weeks of Editing: Week 3 — Editing A Novel vs.

52 Weeks of Editing: Week 3 — Editing A Novel vs.

It’s been a tough week.
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52 Weeks of Editing: Week 3 — Working With A Broken Plot (Part One)

52 Weeks of Editing: Week 3 — Working With A Broken Plot (Part One)

Plot. Here we go. It’s the aspect of novel writing I have the most books on. I’m not even going to go into all the deep theories of plot…
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52 Weeks of Editing: Week 2— Is There Anything Good to Work With Here?

52 Weeks of Editing: Week 2— Is There Anything Good to Work With Here?

OK. You know there’s a piece of advice floating about the writing world about editing? The one that says you should put your manuscript in…
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52 Weeks of Editing: Week 1—A Year of Editing a 19-Year-Old First Draft

52 Weeks of Editing: Week 1—A Year of Editing a 19-Year-Old First Draft

This was originally posted on my personal site, here.
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