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Definitions of Editing: Copyediting

This post continues this short series about different types of editing with a look at copyediting. Copyediting takes place after

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Go Set A Watchman: Questions For Writers (And Readers)

 SPOILERS. So Harper Lee’s new novel is out! Who’d have thought that?! I’ve always used To Kill A Mockingbird as

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This Week: Lines and Holes

* I read the excellent Kent Haruf’s Our Souls At Night as well as this profile on the Making Of A Writer.

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This Week: Plotting And Swearing

This week: * I continued to read Patricia Highsmith’s Plotting And Writing Suspense Fiction, which is first-rate and should be

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Patricia Highsmith: Take A Nap

After coming across this piece in the Guardian, I’m reading the excellent Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction by Patricia Highsmith. I’ve

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Definitions Of Editing: Structural Editing

It’s useful for any writer to understand different editorial terms. They can bring clarity to what your writing needs or is

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Definitions of Editing: Key Terms

All writers need to understand editing. Editing can involve many different types of editorial activity, from straightforward matters such as correcting

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Voice Workshop, 14 March 2015

Find Your Voice is one of the great myths of creative writing; you have a voice already, so let’s find ways

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Getting Published Day 2015: Voice Workshop And Book Doctoring

On Saturday I took part in the Getting Published Day at Regents College, London. As always, with Writers’ Workshop events, it was

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Friday Writing Experiment No. 58: Spring Clean-up

The first day of spring, yay! According to my own logic, the first day of spring is that day when

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Friday Writing Experiment No. 57: Off Your Chest

In another blog post this week, I write about shame – not so much a personal shame but a cultural

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What Words Can You Use?

I’m connecting a few dots here. 1. When I ran a workshop on the Four Elements at York last year,

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