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Editor's Blog

Writing is your craft and your passion. If you also want it to be a source of income, you'll need to know much more than how to place a comma.

Editor's Blog keeps you up to date on the business end of things and reminds you of writing techniques you may have forgotten so you can concentrate on your writing.





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Jan 26, 2010, Having Trouble Paying Attention to Your Story

If you're having a bit of trouble keeping up with your story and contstantly looking back to remember who's name is who's or trying to remember what

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Jan 25, 2010, Crush That Pesty Writer's Block!

Ever just sit at the computer after you've been writing? Stuck? Well, these tips helped me through my first book and my current one. 1( Set a fake

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Jan 23, 2010, great starts,...so I thought!?!?

I'm brainstorming content pages for my SiteSell site without any sort of control for making progress. I have counted ten notebooks filled with

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Jan 23, 2010, Edit the tidE

Read your story backwards. Don't give up! Yes, its long its tedious and you think your work is perfect from the getco but serious try it. If it makes

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Jan 12, 2010, Keep a journal

Seriously! It works! Try keeping a journal for, say, a year. Don't write boring stuff. Notice things. The colour of something, the taste of something.

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Jan 10, 2010, Beating Writers Block - Copy Hemmingway

I came across this blog post that has an excellent tip from Ernest Hemmingway about how to beat writer's block...

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Jan 9, 2010, imagine

make your story look real when you imagine it so peaple will like

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Jan 8, 2010, Dysfunctional Characters Become One Happy Family

Cannot seem to connect my characters even though they are all deeply

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Jan 6, 2010, Book Writer Promotion

Hi Audrey - this is my new SBI site to help mainly self-publishers. Book Writer Promotionis a new website aimed at helping authors promote themselves

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Jan 6, 2010, Writing Goals 2010

Writers share their writing goals for 2009 and receive support from Audrey Owen, editor at writershelper.com.

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Jan 5, 2010, Let your writing inhabit you

I may be alone in my thinking but for me writing comes to me. It decides when it is ready, it pounces rather unexpectedly and before I know it, it is

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Jan 1, 2010, Writing Goals

Get help meeting your writing goals.

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Dec 31, 2009, FRIENDLY ENVIRONMENT

Write 1.When your mind is settled. 2.When cool and relaxed. 3.when there is less distractions. 4.When at your peak.

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Dec 25, 2009, Gerunds and possessives

I was wondering if you had a catchy and simple explanation for the grammatical rule about gerunds and possessives? I understand the rule and use it in

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Dec 15, 2009, What to rely on a editor?

Suppose I have my idea for my story on a novel but have trouble making the story sound good or at least un-mediocre how could a editor help me on

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Dec 13, 2009, Quoting thoughts

Would thoughts ever qualify as quotes? Example 1) I was thinking of going to the mall. Example 2) I was thinking, Should I go to the

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Dec 11, 2009, Introduction Paragraphs

When you are writing an essay or letter remember to always add flavor a pop to the first sentence to make the reader read it. DON'T YOU EVER USE

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Dec 6, 2009, Beginning sentences with pronouns

The title is a bit misleading but I couldn't think of what to call this problem. I'm writing an action story and end up saying He did this. She did

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Dec 2, 2009, An evil villain-worthy motive

I was doing a whole bunch of plans for my story when decided I needed to give my bad guy an evil plan. All I needed for him to do was be evil enough

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