• More Self-Editing Tips for Fiction Authors

    More Self-Editing Tips for Fiction Authors

    If you’ve just finished the first draft of your novel, and reviewed my original list of 10 self-editing tips for fiction authors, please read on for the next 10. (There are 24 tips in total, and 24 is the best one of the lot…) Of course hiring a freelance editorial…

  • Self-Editing Tips for Fiction authors

    Self-Editing Tips for Fiction Authors

    If you’ve just finished the first draft of your novel, now it’s time to look at my list of self-editing tips for fiction authors. The better your manuscript is before you send it to a fiction editor for some professional attention, the better your final, published book will be. Authors…

  • Stop overdescribing

    How to Stop Over-Describing in Your Novel

    Make Your Writing Tighter, part 3 How to avoid OVERWRITING in fiction novels. You might have heard the phrase ‘make every word count’. And you might have heard that ‘tight writing is good writing‘. But what do these phrases actually mean? What constitutes ‘tight writing’? And what words might not…