Tense is a subtle little narrative choice that is easy to forget about when you start writing. Then you go back, reread your first draft, and discover that an inconsistent tense is tripping you up and giving you a lot of finicky editing to do. Tense is another...
Before I started my own editing business, I associated the word marketing with manipulation and greed. I think a lot of people carry that association with marketing, especially creatives who make services and content primarily to inspire or teach or just feeds...
How you frame your story powerfully influences the reader’s experience of it. As a writer, you need to know exactly how that framing works and what tools you can use to create a narrative voice that serves your story well. In this series, I go over four key tools...
How you frame your story powerfully influences the reader’s experience of it. As a writer, you need to know exactly how that framing works and what tools you can use to create a narrative voice that serves your story well. In this series, I’ll go over four key...
Upon leaving high school, I knew there were two things I wanted to study: English literature and psychology. I, like many other writers, initially struggled with writing characters that were significantly different than myself. If I was to write books, I didn’t...
Corsets have taken a lot of hate over the past century. Modern movies and shows constantly portray this item of clothing as an inhibiting, painful device whose popularity was perpetuated by harmful patriarchal standards of beauty. The conventional wisdom is that...
There are many different types of editing services out there. I’ve given a broad overview on how all the different editing levels work in a previous post. Here, I’ll clear up any confusion on two of the most convoluted editing terms: copy editing and proofreading....
While 2020 has been a memorable year for the most unfortunate host of reasons, there is at least one part of it I will remember fondly, and that is all the wonderful reads I discovered this year. This was the first year I dipped my toes into the wonderful realm of...
If you’ve read my blog before, you probably know that I consider myself a language nerd. I love the beauty and craft of the written word. Many don’t like the idea of studying language because, let’s be honest, learning grammar can be such a drag. I too did not...