For those of us who truly care about writing, owning our author-ity as an author is sometimes a challenge, both because there is almost always a writer more successful than we are, and also because there are so many pretenders.…
Tag: editing
Letting your work “cool” so you can cut into it
Stephen King lets his books “sit” for 6 weeks after he has written them. He says he is sometimes tempted to go admire a sentence that came out just right, or go fix something that he’s been mulling over, but…
10 writing tips — oh, alright, 17!
Your way is the write way. You don’t have to show your writing to ANYone. You can, but you don’t have to. Just writing for yourself is very important. You don’t have to READ what you write. In fact, it…