editing
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My new iPad editing method has been a game changer
But I am still writing, I am still learning, and I am still growing, and through this process I has struggled to find the time, the motivation, and the method for editing my work will keep me on track. Read more
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Officially available for content editing
I have been working as a content editor for a few years now, but my schedule previously did not allow me to take on more than a few jobs a year. If you are looking for content edits, to help identify issues with your story plot, characters or structure, hit me up and we can Read more
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Write your first draft for you and your last draft for your reader
I think I’ve been having an existential crisis. Does that qualify as a good excuse for not posting recently? I’ve been writing much more than average. I polished a final draft. I’m working on a bunch of short stories and really refining my process there. I’ve been catching up on reading. I’ve been brainstorming, outlining, Read more
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The overused phrase
We all have one and it’s practically invisible. To you. But your readers will start to notice it and notice it and notice it, and soon it will start to overshadow your entire story. Yesterday I came across a tweet on my feed. An otherwise awesome book used the same description so many times it Read more
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Fixing a Climax Chapter
In one of my novels I’m editing there is chapter, a big chapter, an explosive, climactic chapter that is just full of problems. At first I thought it was just the choreography of the final scene. It wasn’t spaced quite right, it didn’t move fluidly, it was confusing and it didn’t possess the punch it Read more
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Don’t try to write a perfect first draft
After I realized that what I first put on the page was not necessary my best writing (imagine my horror!) I concluded that I would save myself a lot of work and effort if I edited as I wrote. And so it took me more than five years to write a first draft. And it Read more
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Tell me what is wrong.
When we writers start out, we really just want to hear how good we are. If we don’t hear it enough, sometimes we quit. If we don’t quit, then our mindset starts to shift. At some point, you’re going to love hearing that people love your story, but what you are going to be looking Read more
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A Great Opening Line
You’ve probably heard it before, but the opening line of your story can make all the difference when you are in the submission phase of your story. And yet it eludes many writers. We are too close to the story. We are sure we need to start where we started when we wrote the first Read more
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Does your story have a point?
When my five year old tells me a story, so every ten minutes, they usually are structured like this: Character introduction- thing happens- thing happens – character change- plot twist – scene change – character name change – new characters introduced – total change in plot/scene/characters/everything – mommy gets a little impatient and stops listening Read more
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Writing through a crisis
I’ve read the stories of many authors, not their books, their personal stories. How they came to be a writer, how they finished their first books, how they got published. A theme has come out through all these stories. My relationship fell apart and for a while I didn’t write My dad got sick and Read more
LC W. Allingham 