Writing Fairy Tales – What You Need to Know
In classic fairy tales, characters are often flat and the stories have a disgusting whiff of social control about them … Yet the...
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Latest from the blogLine Editing Tip: Why Cutting Filter Words Isn’t Always Enough
In fiction, strong point of view (POV) is the reader’s lifeline to immersion. The deeper the POV, the more readers can live inside a character’s experience – see what they see, feel what they feel. One of the most common obstacles to this depth is the presence...
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Lots of editors get hung up on the use of social media to market their businesses … I suspect it starts to feel like something w...
Read moreWhat Makes a Good Steampunk Novel?
If you don’t know much about steampunk, you probably think this literary genre is just science fiction set in Victorian times. B...
Read moreHow Many Hours a Day Does an Editor Work?
If you’re a freelance editor, have you ever asked yourself how many hours a day you should spend editing? You might wonder how y...
Read moreHow to Write Cyberpunk
Cyberpunk is a genre that has been pithily characterised as ‘high tech, low life’. Sure, it’s all about hackers and far-out tech, but ...
Read moreWhat is Developmental Editing?
If there’s one thing that drives me bonkers in the editorial world, it’s the lack of coherent descriptions for all the different edito...
Read more5 Comma Rules You Can Sometimes Break
Commas. They look so insignificant and innocent, but in reality they’re tricky little monsters that can have a big impact on a piece o...
Read moreHow to Write Surrealist Fiction
Most of us are familiar with surrealist images like Salvador Dali’s Three Sphinxes of Bikini, but even though surrealism was – and sti...
Read moreHow to Enjoy Freelance Freedom Without Being a Digital Nomad
When you run your own business, you can often take your work with you wherever you go. It’s one of the reasons I love running a freela...
Read more6 Kinds of Apocalypse to Inspire Your Writing
Post-apocalyptic fiction follows the fortunes of characters as they try to cope in a post-apocalyptic world. Sounds deceptively simple...
Read more5 Things I Love About Being a Freelance Fiction Editor
Being a freelance fiction editor isn’t all sunshine and roses (self-assessment tax returns, anyone?) but the benefits of running your ...
Read moreHow to Write Dystopian Fiction
Dystopias have provided inspiration for generations of writers, and with good reason. When you become a writer of dystopian fiction, y...
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