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Editing The Story Grid: What Good Editors Know
WHAT IS THE STORY GRID? The Story Grid is a tool developed by editor Shawn Coyne to analyze stories and provide helpful editorial comments. It's like a CT Scan that takes a photo of the global story and tells the editor or writer what is working, what is not, and what must be done to make what...- JasonWrench
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Editing Intuitive Editing by Tiffany Yates Martin
After you’ve completed your manuscript and you’re standing at the foot of Revision Mountain, climbing to the summit can feel impossible. It’s hard to look at your own writing with the objective eye needed to shape it into a tight, polished, publishable story—but just like writing, self-editing...- Leslie
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You’ve finished your rough draft—great! Here’s how to quickly and easily revise it to show off your true writing skills. From the award-winning author and educator who brought you the Fast Drafting method comes an easy, effective way to approach the often daunting task of revising your work. It doe- joan koster
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Craft Fine Tune Your Manuscript with Kate McMurray
Want to take your manuscript from good to great? A few simple things can help your story shine and stand out from the pack. Our goals for this workshop: · Cut wordiness to make your manuscript clearer and more readable. · Check for other grammatical sins like excessive sentence...- Kate McMurray
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Editing The Fine Art of Killing Words: Editing for a Lean, Mean Manuscript with Beth Daniels
Not long ago my agent gave me what sounded like an impossible mission. Trim a 100,000+ word manuscript to under 90,000 words. That’s approximately 35 pages worth of words. Words I sweated to string together. Words I loved. “I think it will interest more editors at the shorter length,” my agent...- Beth Daniels
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Editing MASTER CLASS: Self-Editing with Brenda Chin
Award-winning editor Brenda Chin has worked in the romance industry for more than 32 years. Throughout her many years with Harlequin, she had the opportunity to work with some of the best writers in the business, often buying their first book. Brenda is offering her expertise to help authors go...- Brenda Chin
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Craft Editor Brenda Chin's Master Class Series
Award-winning editor Brenda Chin has worked in the romance industry for more than 32 years. Throughout her many years with Harlequin, she had the opportunity to work with some of the best writers in the business, often buying their first book. Brenda is offering her expertise to help authors go...- Brenda Chin
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Editing MASTER CLASS: Spells of the Heart: Editing Your Romance for Maximum Magic with Angela Knight
You’ve just typed The End. Sigh! You’re done… Not so fast. You can be absolutely sure that somewhere in that stack of pages are: embarrassing plot holes; limp love scenes; sentences that clank instead of ring; conflicts that go nowhere; colorless cardboard characters; and fight scenes with...- Angela Knight
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Editing Self-Editing for Fiction Writers with Linda Carroll-Bradd
Learn how to identify shallow POV and make it deeper. Learn how to change your writing from Telling to Showing. Want to perk up the pace of your prose? Need help pinpointing weak spots in your writing style? Your Instructor: Linda Carroll-Bradd, owner of Lustre Editing This workshop will...- CAlinda53
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Editing Post-Nano Editing. Macro Editing with Terri Main
There’s an old Zen proverb that reads, “After Enlightenment comes the Laundry.” Perhaps you feel like that after NanoWrimo. After the rush of writing a novel in a month the adrenaline is still pumping and then you read what you wrote. You’ve been to the mountain top, you looked out over the...- terrimain
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Editing The End: What do I do after I've written the book? with Vicky Burkholder
As an editor, I spend an inordinate amount of time instructing authors in the basics. What makes a good plot? Have I used the right words? The End: What do I do after I've written the book? is a class that answers these and other questions for fiction writers. From word choice, punctuation and...- Vicky Burkholder
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Editing Layering as an Editing Tool with Multi-Published Author Cassandra Carr
Have you ever finished the first draft of a book and thought it was missing something, but you weren't sure what? That "what" is probably layering - the process of adding details to your story, from character traits to body language to descriptions of the environment surrounding your story. Each...- CassandraCarr
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Editing Self-Edit Your Way to Success with Katherine McIntyre
Want to make your manuscript as polished as it can be? Learn a variety of self-editing techniques from an editor to fix pacing issues, eliminate wasted words, and attain better flow. By the end of this class, you'll have a checklist of tools to handle any hurdles in the early drafts so you can...- Katherine McIntyre
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Craft Beyond Spellcheck: Self-Editing Before Submission with Kate McMurray
You’ve written a book and you want to give it one last spit polish before submitting to editors and agents, but grammar isn’t exactly your strong suit. No problem! Two professional editors give some tips and tricks for how to self-edit, including checking for common errors, to help you make your...- Kate McMurray
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Editing Self-Editing from Page Zero with Mary DeSantis
If you’re anything like me, you’re a pantser, which means outlines make no sense and you hit the ground running on page one. Everything chugs along beautifully up to your inciting incident. Suddenly, there are multiple possibilities for your plot and so many choices for your characters to make...- Mary DeSantis
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Editing The Art of Editing with New York Times Bestselling author Angela Knight
*** Registration is now full. *** This is a LIVE webinar scheduled for Friday September 11 at 8 p.m-9 p.m. EDT * Don't know what time that is in your timezone? Check out HERE. This hour-long PowerPoint presentation covers how to effectively work through the drafting process to make sure you...- Angela Knight
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Editing Macro-Editing: Become Your Own Plot Doctor with Terri Main
Once you have written your first draft, you know you are not done. You understand that you need to fix everything from plot holes to punctuation. The starting point is Macro-Editing - Editing the Big Picture. Many spend $1000s on Book Doctors, Finishers, and Developmental Editors to do this work...- terrimain
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Craft Tighten Your Writing with Suzanne Jefferies
Show don’t tell, deep point of view, too many adverbs! How do you make your writing tighter, punchier, and hit all those tick-boxes? In this week-long workshop I’ll take you through the six steps to make sure your romance writing is everything you want it to be.- SuzanneJefferies
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Craft Getting the ‘Send It!’—Perfecting Your First Five Pages with Fleur Bradley
When submitting to agents, you often get to include five sample pages with your query. This workshop will teach you how to get those pages to shine, from character introduction, conflict, voice and formatting—to ensure that agents will want to read more. Instructor will provide feedback on query...- F.T. Bradley
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Genre-Romance Spells of the Heart: Editing Your Romance for Maximum Magic with Angela Knight
You’ve just typed The End. Sigh! You’re done… Not so fast. You can be absolutely sure that somewhere in that stack of pages are: embarrassing plot holes; limp love scenes; sentences that clank instead of ring; conflicts that go nowhere; colorless cardboard characters; and fight scenes with...- Angela Knight
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