by Nicki Yowell | Dec 1, 2025 | Editing, Tips, Writing
by Monica Drake, Senior Editor When I sit down to revise my own novel-in-progress, there are two ways I might feel as I come to the work. One is a sudden, full-on exhaustion. The book is three hundred pages, with countless choices I’ve already made. Where to start...
by Nicki Yowell | Jul 30, 2021 | Editing, Publishing, Tips, Writing
by Sarah Currin, Collaborative Editor We all know how powerful language can be. Words can hurt or help, clarify or confuse, illuminate or invalidate. They can perpetuate oppressive structures or imagine a better world. Writers, editors, and other wordsmiths need to...
by Nicki Yowell | Dec 2, 2020 | Editing, Tips, Writing
By Ali Shaw, Executive Editor So frequently these days, I hear from clients and writer friends that they feel stuck. The book they were happily working on for the past few years got put on hold in March or April, like so much of our lives did at the beginning of the...
by Nicki Yowell | Oct 1, 2020 | Editing, Tips, Writing
by Laura Garwood, Collaborative Editor The editing process can be hard. You’ve sent your hard work away for someone else to look at and work on, and you are just left to wait it out. I hope they like it. If you are like a lot of people, you second-guess yourself. Oof,...
by Nicki Yowell | Apr 30, 2020 | Editing, Tips, Writing
by Katey Schultz, Guest Contributor I first started teaching about the “creative imagination” and the “technical imagination” after reading Jeff Vandermeer’s Wonderbook. In short, Vandermeer explains, the creative imagination is that spark of punch-drunk energy we...
by Nicki Yowell | Dec 3, 2019 | Editing, Tips, Writing
By Cooper Lee Bombardier, Collaborative Editor If you’re someone who is wondering what the sudden buzz around pronouns and gender is all about, you might not be trans. Or nonbinary. Or gender fluid. Conversations around language to describe the vast range of possible...
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