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Coping with your Critique

Posted on February 25, 2013

rockville_8Editors.

As the saying goes, you can’t live without ’em…and you can’t live without ’em.

A good editor can make all the difference between an amateur manuscript that goes nowhere and a highly polished gem that you can be proud of. But the process of working through the criticisms of an editor’s letter can often be a soul-smushing experience, one that often drains your energy to even work on the manuscript.

Fear not! There are ways to keep from taking your critique to heart. Check out this guest blog post I wrote for The Rockville Eight on strategies for coping with your editor’s letter, and maybe even getting more mileage out of it than you had previously.

Posted in: Tips for eAuthors | Tagged: critique, editors, edits, manuscript, writing

Me in my (literary) underwear

Posted on August 18, 2012

While I continue to toil with Part II of my Book Cover Design Primer, I’m also trying to put out Blueblood, the second in the Marty Singer crime fiction series.

The good news is that the line edits came back from my editor, the inimitable Alison Dasho. The bad news is that I have to go through my manuscript as meticulously as she did and weigh her suggestions, then either make or disregard them (the latter does not happen very often). The impact Alison’s line edits have made are already obvious to me and I’m only a third of the way through.

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Posted in: Tips for eAuthors | Tagged: craft, editing, editors, novel, short story, writers, writing

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