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BE Verbs Be Gone

• June 22, 2009 • 11 Comments

Posted in Advice, Editing
Tags: be verbs, chopping block, first draft, novel, placeholders, prose, tweak, writing

Presenting Your Best Stuff

• June 15, 2009 • 10 Comments

Posted in Editing, Finding Agents & Submitting
Tags: agent, beta readers, Editing, polish, querying, reviewers, writer, writing

Make Your Prose Sing & Zing

• April 16, 2009 • 2 Comments

Posted in Advice, Editing, Voice, Texture, Tone
Tags: alliteration, assonance, book, bursting, checkmate, chess, compulsion, courtney vail, dialogue, edit, finding voice, fresh, hyperbole, inanimate object, Kings & Queens, listening, music, narrative, novel, personification, prose, resonance, satanism, sing, song, symbolism, syntax, voice, voice and texture, wicca, words, writer, writing, zing, zingy

Ending with a Bang

• April 1, 2009 • 4 Comments

Posted in Advice, Editing
Tags: answer, arc, author, bang, beginning, book, characters, climax, duology, ending, goal, novel, resonate, satisfactory, split, story questions, threads, trilogy, unagented, wrapping up, writer, writing

Review And Get Feedback

• February 9, 2009 • 3 Comments

Posted in Advice, Editing, Writer's Tools
Tags: writer, author, writing, manuscript, novel, critique, publishers, revision, review, TNBW, novelist, courtney vail, forums, writing forums, readers, polish, MS, groups, authonomy, fanstory, HarperCollins, valentines poem, valentines story, valentines contest, winner

My Fickle Mind

• November 21, 2008 • 6 Comments

Posted in Advice, Editing, Motivational Boosters, Personal Notes, Voice, Texture, Tone, Writer's Tools
Tags: ability, bleed, celebrity vampire, courtney vail, Editing, ink, kill your darlings, Kings & Queens, rhythm, tone, vampire, voice, writer, writing

The Web You Weave

• October 30, 2008 • 10 Comments

Posted in Advice, Baiting Readers, Editing, Publicity & Your Web Presence, Writer's Tools
Tags: benefits, blogging, contacts, courtney vail, facebook, myspace, niche markets, novel, potential readers, self-published, shoutlife, vital, web, web presence, writer, writing

The Neverending Red Pen

• September 27, 2008 • 5 Comments

Posted in Editing, Personal Notes
Tags: altered, changes, Editing, first chapter, novel, prologue, red pen, writer, writing

Oops, I did it Again. Well, not me, or Britney for that matter, but…

• August 18, 2008 • 2 Comments

Posted in Editing
Tags: book review, Editing, errors, glitches, Good People, M&Ms, mistakes, oops, writing

The Big Fix

• August 16, 2008 • 2 Comments

Posted in Advice, Creativity, Editing, Motivational Boosters, Voice, Texture, Tone
Tags: big fix, big idea, climax, end, fixing your story, middle, reassessment, Red Sox, story, trash to treasure, writing

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