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How to Choose your Edit (and Not Let Your Edit Choose You) by Vickie Motter
You've written your first draft. You've brought out the red pen. Now what? If you're like a lot of beginning writers, you'll go through and mark your spelling and grammar errors, maybe change a couple...
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Editing Piece by Piece by Elana Johnson
When sitting down to edit your newly penned manuscript, I think one of the most important things to do is break it down piece by piece. The second most important thing is to get off the computer. Most...
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Week Two Pep and Website Update
Hello All!So last week, at the appropriate time I set out to write a Week Two pep email. Before I’d finished it, I decided it might be a good idea to check the site to make sure I could send said...
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Taming the Revision Beast by Becca Puglisi
When it comes to the writing process, I’m kind of a freak of nature. Drafting is by far my least favorite part. It’s so hard to get the story out, and after all that work, you’re left with something...
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Site Update
Hello Edmos,I upated you on Twitter yesterday, but forgot to put an update here! Silly me. Things are a bit crazy with everything going on and me not being able to connect to the internet at home. (I'm...
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Why Everyone Should Love Editing by Jodi Meadows
I have a confession: I love editing.There. I said it. I know this will come as a shock to some people, because there are lots of folks who crave the creative freedom of drafting a story, and revising...
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Editing Doesn’t Have to be a Soul-Killing Existential Horror by Jeff Somers
Nobody knows anybody. Not that well.Writing a book is sort of like going out on a three-day bender1. At first it seems like a good idea, then gets out of hand quickly, ending in tears, nausea, and lost...
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Revising is Only the Beginning by Peter Salomon
On Thursday January 5, 2012 I emailed the ‘final’ revisions of my debut novel to my Editor at Flux (and by ‘final’ I mean that the file I emailed will be transformed into the ARC and so there are only...
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Your Weekly Edmo Pep Email!
Hello Edmos!I hear there are new members signing up every day! Hooray! We're glad to have you on board. Welcome! Find yourself a comfy state room and bring your laptop, or your printed manuscript out...
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Editing with Timelines by Laura Bickle
Writers tend to get into a lot of trouble with time. There's making time to write, managing deadlines, and the vagaries of market timing.One issue with time, however, is entirely within the author's...
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Character Motivation by Bobbi Miller
Who were your favorite characters when you were a young reader? Jo, of Little Women? Mattie, in True Grit? The Artful Dodger, in Oliver Twist? Emma, of Jane Austin fame? What about Huckleberry Finn?...
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Revisions Don't Have to Suck by Susan Dennard
Everyone thinks revisions suck. They think that cleaning their story/prose is zero fun—all the fun is in the inspired writing, right?WRONG. You can enjoy revising. Heck, I’d WAAAY rather revise a book...
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The Final Week of Edmo is Here
Dear Edmos,The final week is upon us. Um... when the heck did that happen? I'm not really sure. But it did. It's here, and we just have to deal with it the best we can. This is often times, a rough...
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Darth Vader and the Death Star: An Editing Ideology by Laura Lascarso
In between construction on Death Stars I and II, Darth Vader moonlighted as senior editor for a major publishing house. He applied his same philosophy in running the Death Star to critiquing...
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Editing with Charts by Leah Cypress
First drafts serve different purposes for different writers. I know writers who describe their first drafts as embarrassing, and would rather die than show them to anyone; I know writers who revise as...
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The End of Another March
Dear Edmos,March is over. I’m not sure whether I should be elated or sad by this pronouncement I have to make. What I can say, however, is a big giant CONGRATULATIONS to those who made it to fifty...
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Dear Edmos,While we're rebuilding the NaNoEdmo website, we're also looking for someone to fill the volunteer position of Community Liaison (CL). What does a Community Liaison do, you ask? The CL is in...
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