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What Is Developmental Editing? — Bryn Donovan

I just came across this extremely helpful post by Bryn Donovan–if you’ve ever found your head spinning when trying to figure out what level of editing your manuscript might need, read on! Hey friends! Before I published my first book with a publisher, I didn’t understand that there are different types of editing. Even if you’re planning to self-publish, I think it’s really helpful to…

Do you have an amazing story you’ve been dying to tell, but just don’t feel you have the writing skills to do it justice?

If the answer is yes, then you’ve come to the right place: https://writealready2017.wordpress.com/ I’ve been a freelance copyeditor/proofreader for a while now, and I’ve worked on all kinds of projects…but what I really excel at–my superpower, if you will–is taking a finished manuscript and making it shine. Most copyeditors will take a manuscript and offer suggestions for how you could improve…

What to Pay for When Publishing… — James Harringtons Creative Work

Here are some really helpful points for any newbie authors out there considering the self-pub route…give it a click!What to Pay for When Publishing… — James Harringtons Creative Work

Quintessential Quotes: #writingwisdom–Writealready2017

“I like for (narrators) to have hope–if a friend or a narrator reveals himself or herself to be hopeless too early on, I lose interest. It depresses me. It makes me overeat.”–Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

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“I like (narrators) to be mentally ill in the same sorts of ways that I am; for instance, I have a friend who said one day, ‘I could resent the ocean if I tried,’ and I realized that I love that in a guy.”–Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

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“(Narrators) shouldn’t be too perfect; perfect means shallow and unreal and fatally uninteresting. I like for them to have a nice sick sense of humor and to be concerned with important things…”–Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

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“I like for narrators to be like the people I choose for friends, which is to say that they have a lot of the same flaws as I. Preoccupation with self is good, as is a tendency toward procrastination, self-delusion, darkness, jealousy, groveling, greediness, addictiveness.”–Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

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“Once weaned from the ephemeral craving for TV, most people will find they enjoy the time they spend reading. I’d like to suggest that turning off that endlessly quacking box is apt to improve the quality of your life as well as the quality of your writing.”–Stephen King, On Writing

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“…if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway.”–Stephen King, On Writing

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“Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are all sorts of opportunities to dip in.”–Stephen King, On Writing

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“The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.”–W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

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“In giving to the character of his invention flesh and bones, (the writer) is giving life to that part of himself which finds no other means of expression. His satisfaction is a sense of liberation.”–W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

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“The character of a scoundrel, logical and complete, has a fascination for his creator which is an outrage to law and order…It may be that in his rogues the writer gratifies instincts deep-rooted in him, which the manners and customs of a civilised world have forced back to the mysterious recesses of the subconscious.”–W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

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“…there is something disconcerting to the writer in the instinct which causes him to take an interest in the singularities of human nature so absorbing that his moral sense is powerless against it. He recognises in himself an artistic satisfaction in the contemplation of evil which a little startles him; but sincerity forces him to confess that the disapproval he feels for certain actions is not…

Quintessential Quotes: #writingwisdom–Writealready2017

“…the writer should seek his reward in the pleasure of his work and in release from the burden of his thought; and, indifferent to aught else, care nothing for praise or censure, failure or success.”–W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence