by CJ Myerly, @mdippedinink My son curls into my side, a sheet of stickers in his lap as our preacher speaks. He points to a sticker. I peel it off, and so it goes. Over and over again, as he sticks each sticker to a blue sheet of paper. Then, comes one of the stickers that’s a little more complicated, that …
Line Edits: Taking Your Novel from Mediocre to Marvelous
by Rachel D. Russell, @RDRussellWrites I recently completed my first line edits on a manuscript. I won’t even venture a guess as to how my editor’s mind can keep track of all the things. Like the fact that my heroine shrugged her shoulder 98,625 times in the novel (really, she’s not as apathetic as that might make her sound). Or, my hero, …