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0054 – Short Story Project Update

After our group of short story writers packaged up our first grouping of stories and used Kindle Direct Publishing to make our stories available in the Sci-Fi: Secrets compilation, we had to do some r… more →

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0054 - Short Story Project Update

Erik wrote 2 months ago: After our group of short story writers packaged up our first grouping of stories and used Kindle Dir … more →

Tags: First Draft, Getting Published, Short Story 2, Writing Project Plan, Short Story, Writing Project

0051 - Two Editing Tools to Help Your Story Revisions

Erik wrote 2 months ago: The last two weeks I’ve been updating the blog with the short-story writing project I’ve … more →

Tags: First Draft, Writing Habits, Short Story 2, Short Story, Editing

0042 - Editing update

Erik wrote 9 months ago: My second pass at editing my non-fiction book is done! It actually feels weird being able to say I h … more →

Tags: Research, Writing prompt #2, second draft, 2nd Draft, Third Draft, 3rd Draft

Three great books on self-editing — 10 comments

Melanie Marttila wrote 9 months ago: (A.K.A. more writing-book porn!) Since I started serious writing practice and got down to the busine … more →

Tags: Alchemy Ink, Melanie Marttila, Author, Tips for Writers, Self-Editing for Fiction Writers, Dave King, Renni Browne, Susan Bell, James Scott Bell

0040 - Edit Frenzy

Erik wrote 10 months ago: I haven’t been blogging much the last several weeks. This week it’s mostly because I … more →

Tags: the writing life, Critiquing, Writing prompt #2, Editing, second draft

Edit Slow — 4 comments

J. L. Mbewe wrote 10 months ago: Edit slow, edit tough…heck, bleed all over it with a red pen. Last Monday, we discussed Write hard, … more →

Tags: Writer's Journey, Yo Ho A Writer's Life for Me, writing, The Art of War, James Scott Bell, yo ho, Editing, Critique Group, Randy Ingermanson

0036 - Repost 2010: Coloring While Editing

Erik wrote 11 months ago: Following the advice in the “Revision & Self-editing” book, I have a set of color pens to use du … more →

Tags: First Draft, First Read Through, Writing prompt #2, edit novel, self-editing, Editing

0035 - Repost 2010: Revision and the Mental Game

Erik wrote 1 year ago: Chapter 13 of Revision and Self-Editing by James Scott Bell starts the discussion on the philosophy … more →

Tags: First Draft, Writing prompt #2, Revision, self-editing, Editing, second draft

0031 - Repost 2010: Novel Plot & Structure

Erik wrote 1 year ago: Chapter 3 of the “Revision & Self-Editing” by James Scott Bell left me with a lot more meat than … more →

Tags: Plotting, Scene & Structure, Writing prompt #2, novel structure, novel plot, plotting, novel plotting, story plot, Story Structure

0030 - Editing & Word Count

Erik wrote 1 year ago: As mentioned in an earlier post I’m working on editing some short stories to submit to writing … more →

Tags: Writing Habits, writing exercises, Writing prompt #2, self-editing, Editing, Word Count, story editing

0027 - Semi-successful Writing Hour

Erik wrote 1 year ago: I set out to do 1hour of writing today, broken down as follows: 30-minutes editing a book I’d … more →

Tags: First Draft, the writing life, Writing prompt #2, Writing Contest, Novel, Short Story, Writing contest, Editing Book, editing novel

0025 - The Accidental Book

Erik wrote 1 year ago: Several years ago I was hosting a writer’s group. My intention with the group was to find a pl … more →

Tags: First Draft, First Read Through, the writing life, Writing Habits, writing plan, writing exercises, Writing Project Plan, Writing prompt #2, writing daily

0018 - The Dreaded "E" Word!

Erik wrote 1 year ago: Now that the first draft is done, it’s time to get ready to edit. I say “get ready … more →

Tags: First Draft, First Read Through, Writing prompt #2, edit novel, self-editing, edit book

The Undercover Soundtrack - James Scott Bell — 10 comments

rozmorris @NailYourNovel @ByRozMorris wrote 1 year ago: ‘This wonderful, startling alchemy when music meets the writer’s brain’ Once a wee … more →

Tags: My Memories of a Future Life, Undercover Soundtrack, Roz Morris, Music, Nail your novel, Authors, Thrillers, soundtracks, music for writing

0016 - Note Taking FTW (for the win)!

Erik wrote 1 year ago: So you are writing. Congratulate yourself. . .briefly. . .then get back to it. Writer’s write! … more →

Tags: Plotting, outlining, Writing prompt #2, Note Taking, novel notes, Book Notes, plot notes, Story Ideas, plot ideas

Revision & Self Editing--Book Review — 4 comments

Kourtney Heintz wrote 1 year ago: James Scott Bell is my hero. An electrifying speaker. I picked up his book at the Writer’s Dig … more →

Tags: writing, Book, Characters, Learning, Point Of View, writers digest, Revision, James Scott Bell, self-editing

Margie Lawson's How-to Author Series Featuring: James Scott Bell

Lis'Anne Harris wrote 2 years ago: James Scott Bell,  author of three how-to books for writers: THE ART OF WAR FOR WRITERS REVISION … more →

Tags: Surf report, Author, Margie Lawson, James Scott Bell, Win, The Art of War for Writers, Plot & structure, Lis'Anne Harris

The Objective of Bell's LOCK--Expanded — 6 comments

Linda Yezak wrote 3 years ago: I’ve been working on Give the Lady a Ride’s  rewrite, and step one was reading this book … more →

Tags: Writing Tips, writing how to books, Authors, James Scott Bell, lock, Objectives, Plot & structure


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