Being Vulnerable: Sharing Your Manuscript in a Writing Workshop
Giving up your writing to others—being vulnerable to their feedback—is the key to sparking the creativity that is essential to good writing.
Sanderson and His Three Editors
Rhythm of War is Brandon Sanderson’s fourth entry in a planned ten-book series called the Stormlight Archive. As part of the book’s campaign, Sanderson released a YouTube video that gives an inside look at how editors take on epic fantasy.
Finding Your Niche: How Discord Can Benefit Your Writing
While not originally designed for writers (in fact, its founders created it to streamline communication amongst gamers), Discord has become a veritable haven for all kinds of people, including writers. With the ability to join and create public and private servers, anyone can use Discord to find their niche.
What Do You Know About Award-Winning Editor Sheila E. Gilbert?
Sheila E. Gilbert is just one example of how successful editors do things in the world of publishing. It is a treat to get into the mind of an award-winning editor, since most editors are very private and it’s difficult to find information on them. But they are the wizards who bring the best books to the market.
The Importance of Conscious Editing
Choosing the right words and using them well can uplift, empower, and support even our most vulnerable communities, but using the wrong words can just as easily do them harm. With this in mind, it is imperative that editors educate themselves on the best practices of conscious editing.
Shedding a Light on Victims in the True Crime Genre
While many true crime books focus on the murders, madmen, and crazed, one wonders how the survivors and victims, who are generally women, walk in a world where their deepest traumas are made permanent on ink and paper.
Lies My Teachers Taught Me: The Evolution of the Writing Process
I wish I had learned about the connection between editing and revising sooner. I fell in love with revision and realized that my passion is in helping other writers create their best work. Revising helped me realize that I want to work in the publishing industry; I just wish these connections were made clearer in high school. I would have realized my passion much sooner.
Proofreading in a Pandemic: How the Editorial Process is Carrying On in Corona
While many aspects of the publishing industry are still adapting to these evolving circumstances, the way editors utilize programs such as Track Changes and Google Docs has set them up to not just survive during a pandemic, but thrive.
Knowing Your Audience Makes Everything Better
Let’s briefly discuss the publishing departments a book passes through on its way from the author’s hands into the consumer’s hands and how each department benefits from understanding the book’s target audience.
Ghostwriting: Taking Editorial Work One Step Further
On the surface, a ghostwriter and an editor have two different professions, but both work closely with an author and their manuscript. While both interact with an author’s ideas and text, a ghostwriter takes the role of an editor one step further—by actually writing the novel.