Liana BrooksIf you think publishing is writing a book in one draft, running spellcheck, and then hitting Publish on Amazon... please talk to an author and ask them about publishing. I promise, it takes more work than that to get a good book.
Writing Tip Of The Day: If you're planning to publish it helps to have a file where you can drop pull quotes into. While you're editing grab the lines that stand out to you so you can use them for promo later.
How you end chapters (and your book!) helps determine what genre your book is. Endings of sentences, scenes, chapters, and books all add weight to the thought and emotion they end on. If you keep ending on questions, it's a mystery. If you end with fear, it's horror.
Part of being a successful adult is making time to reset, refuel, and recharge.
When you're working, take hourly break to stretch, hydrate, rest your eyes. Take several daily breaks to get food, refuel the brain, and do something not work related. Take weekly breaks from work.
My April editing client is rescheduling so I am offering a 10% coupon to anyone booking an April edit so I can fill this slot. I can take your novel on April 6th and the edits will be done by the first week of May unless the novel is over 100k.
Unless there is a lot of money on the table or some other demonic deadline, don’t lose sleep over writing. It’s not healthy. There’s no advantage to stressing yourself out and making yourself miserable while writing a book.
Have fun!
My April editing client is rescheduling so I am offering a 10% coupon to anyone booking an April edit so I can fill this slot. I can take your novel on April 6th and the edits will be done by the first week of May unless the novel is over 100k.
What does it cost to hire a freelance editor? It depends on the kind of book you need edited and what kind of editing you want done.
The Editorial Freelancers Association has a calculator. www.the-efa.org/rates/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Editing
I'll be honest, a lot of the struggle with writing the first draft of a scene with Big Emotions is just screaming in your own head in a small panic as you try to get coherent words on the page. Books are hard to write.
My April editing client is rescheduling so I am offering a 10% coupon to anyone booking an April edit so I can fill this slot. I can take your novel on April 6th and the edits will be done by the first week of May unless the novel is over 100k.
