Turning the first draft into the second, second draft into the third.
Tag: editing
Editing Tips (1)
Some basic tips on editing your manuscript.
Writing Good Dialogue (2)
Good dialogue is never about words that come out of a character's mouth.
Rules for the Second Draft (3)
The goal of the second draft is to make a book the reader cannot put down.
Writing Good Dialogue
It's not what your characters are saying that counts. It's what they are not saying.
Basic Writing Stuff You Were Too Afraid to Ask
If you are very, very new to writing, here are 10 really basic things you might want to know but were afraid to ask.
Do you have to understand every word?
When Joseph Conrad's Nostromo was first published in 1904, many of the words used in the text must have been unfamiliar to the general public. The common folk of the neighborhood, peons of the estancias, vaqueros of the seaboard plains, tame Indians coming miles to market with a bundle of sugar-cane or a basket of maize worth … Continue reading Do you have to understand every word?
Writing Exercise 2
An experiment reveals that 92.6% of the words in a first draft were redundant.
Samurai Novelist 