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Throughout the past year, I’ve been revising an old manuscript I wrote almost a decade ago. It’s a novel I was forced to abandon, despite still bei...
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by Word Alive Press
Everyone, everywhere, speaks with an accent. It doesn’t matter what your first language is or where you grew up. When someone from a different plac...
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As an editor, I’m always working on ways to make prose more concise and effective. It’s typically true that if you can say something in eight words...
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by Word Alive Press
We all love movies. Is there anything better than sitting in a theatre, waiting for the start of a film you’ve been anticipating for weeks, months,...
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There are few writers in the Christian world as revered as C.S. Lewis. Many readers discovered him young, through his Chronicles of Narnia novels, ...
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Since ChatGPT first started to take the world by storm about a year and a half ago, the writing community has been buzzing over how to grapple with...
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When working with a lot of relatively new authors, an editor tends to notice certain patterns begin to emerge over time. I’ve used this blog to tal...
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I’ve said before on this blog that you don’t know what you don’t know. This is a critical concept in editing. The reason writers need editors is be...
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Every writer needs an audience.
In fact, I’d go so far as to say that every writer already has one. In extreme cases, that audience might literally...
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How frequently do you need to say something before someone remembers it? This is a really important question for a writer. Well, not just for writ...
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Let’s start with a philosophical question: Is it possible to have too much of a good thing? I think most people would say yes. Wholeheartedly. So ...
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You know that feeling just before you fall asleep? You’re lying in bed, totally relaxed, surrounded by your most comfortable pillows and blankets… ...
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