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Editing Tips: Top 3 Scene Issues — Guest: Naomi Hughes
Here's the latest from Jami Gold, Paranormal Author : Editor Naomi Hughes is here again this week with the second post in her series about the top issues she sees in story craft. If you missed my...
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Editing Tips: Top 3 Writing Craft Issues — Guest: Naomi Hughes
Here's the latest from Jami Gold, Paranormal Author : Editor Naomi Hughes is here again this week with the third—and last—post in her series about the top issues she sees in story and writing craft. If...
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4 Common Copy Editing Issues to Watch For — Guest: Julie Glover
Here's the latest from Jami Gold, Paranormal Author : I’ve mentioned before that I write very “clean,” and that helps me when it comes time to getting my stories professionally edited. Julie Glover, my...
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5 Questions to Ask Before Hiring Help: Part One — Guest: Jeff Lyons
Here's the latest from Jami Gold, Paranormal Author : Over the years, I’ve written several posts here about how to research and evaluate editors to help us with our writing and storytelling craft: the...
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5 Questions to Ask Before Hiring Help: Part Two — Guest: Jeff Lyons
Here's the latest from Jami Gold, Paranormal Author : As I mentioned last week, I’ve written several posts here over the years about how to research and evaluate editors to help us with our writing and...
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Picking Editors: Can We Combine Steps (and Save Money)? — Guest: Lisa Poisso
Here's the latest from Jami Gold, Paranormal Author : Once we’ve been writing for a while, we’ve heard enough about the process that we know our draft will be imperfect. (We still might not like that...
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Editing Processes: How Do We Improve?
Here's the latest from Jami Gold, Paranormal Author : No matter our publishing path, our work always needs to go through an editing process. Our process could be any combination of the following...
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Writing Craft Master Lists: Filling in the Blanks—Participle Phrases
Here's the latest from Jami Gold, Paranormal Author : Over the past two weeks, I shared my series of huge mega-posts listing every writing craft skill I could think of for story development, line...
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What Is Line Editing and What Should Line Editors Do?
Here's the latest from Jami Gold, Paranormal Author : Last month, when I put together the Master Lists of writing craft skills to provide insights for self-editing and/or finding editors, I created a...
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6 Ways to Improve Your Big-Picture Revision Skills — Guest: Lisa Poisso
Here's the latest from Jami Gold, Paranormal Author : For many writers, the scariest step of the editing process is the first one: story revision. The other stages of the process—line editing and copy...
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Are Sneaky Plot Holes Lurking in Your Story?
Here's the latest from Jami Gold, Paranormal Author : It’s time for another one of my guest posts over at Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi’s Writers Helping Writers site. As one of their Resident...
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How Can a Good Publishing Partner Help Us? (and Blogiversary Winners!)
Here's the latest from Jami Gold, Paranormal Author : Yay! Today marks the official eight-year mark for my blog. *whew* I made it…even though the past few years made that milestone a bit questionable....
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How Do We Check the Facts in Our Fiction? — Guest: Selina J. Eckert
Here's the latest from Jami Gold, Paranormal Author : Facts—and the lack of them—have been in the news lately, as society struggles to define what makes a fact a fact. But as the publishing industry...
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Our Story’s Essence: What’s the Story We Want to Tell?
Here's the latest from Jami Gold, Paranormal Author : Last week, we talked about discovering the essence of our character. Relatedly, over the past few days, several thoughts rolled around my head that...
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Watching Out for Redundancy in Our Story
Here's the latest from Jami Gold, Paranormal Author : Once I start reading a book beyond the Look Inside feature at Amazon, it’s rare for me to DNF (did not finish) a story. If I DNF a book later in...
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Professional Beta Readers: What to Expect — Guest: CeCe Downs
Here's the latest from Jami Gold, Paranormal Author : I’ve shared many tips about beta readers before, from advice on where to find beta readers to how to make beta reading work for us. One assumption...
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Need Advice from an Editor?
Here's the latest from Jami Gold, Paranormal Author : Editing is the process of making our words (and sentences, scenes, and story) better. Unless we’re one of those authors who think everything we...
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How Can Writers Pay It Forward?
Here's the latest from Jami Gold, Paranormal Author : Many of us write because we want to connect with readers. Maybe we want to make them think or not feel alone or simply entertain them for a bit....
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How Should We Format Non-Verbal Communication?
Here's the latest from Jami Gold, Paranormal Author : The last few weeks have been hard for many. Between COVID deaths and ongoing pandemic issues, George Floyd’s murder, and the escalating behavior of...
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How Can We Learn and Improve Our Writing Skills?
Here's the latest from Jami Gold, Paranormal Author : When we first start writing, we have no idea what all we don’t know. That uncertainty can make it difficult for us to improve. How can we get...
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