Editing 101: Part 3 – Graphs and Charts

I had a bit of fun with this portion of my editing. I can’t guarantee it’s usefullness, but it was interesting as an overall picture. I like to write all in one document  using Microsoft Word. Yep, I know there are lots of ‘novel writing’...

Editing 101: Part 2 – Character Development

Welcome back to Part 2 of my Editing 101 series. Last week I focused on The Big Picture, and created a one sentence summary of my novel. This week, I’m going to look at character development. We all know that the best novels are ones in which the main character...

Editing 101: Part 1 – The Big Picture

I finished the second draft of Reckless Rescue last Saturday, it’s now down to the hard slog of editing. The edit I just finished was largely a content edit. I added in a lot of new scenes and changed the plot in many others. I feel like I now have the basics of...

The End!

Sorry I’ve been kind of absent lately, both here on my blog, and on Twitter and Facebook. Instead I’ve been focusing on Reckless Rescue. I’ve known I was close to the finish for several daywriting editing through these last few chapters has really...

The Magic of Editing

Lately here in my house we’ve all been obsessively watching Mythbusters. We’ve seen just about every episode available on iTunes (in Australia anyway), and have started on the DVD’s to get any episodes we’ve missed (which is a lot). There are...