by Stephanie Morrill | Aug 17, 2020 | Beginning Writer's Guide To Finishing A Novel, Editing, Setting
When I’m doing a macro edit, the last big picture story element I work on is my setting. The setting for your story isn’t just, “modern day Kansas City,” or, “1920s Chicago,” or a fantasy world of your own creation. You might find...
by Stephanie Morrill | Aug 10, 2020 | Beginning Writer's Guide To Finishing A Novel, Editing, Plot
After a couple weeks away from this series, I’m feeling a bit disoriented! If you are too, here are the last few posts: Editing Process Overview Fixing Character Issues Fixing Theme Issues Like I talked about in previous editing posts, all the story elements...
by Stephanie Morrill | Jul 20, 2020 | Editing, Writing, Writing Life
I’m away for a few a few weeks, so I’m resurrecting a few posts from the archives. I hope you enjoy them! Also, for those doing the 100-for-100 writing challenge, today is day 50! Halfway there! Among the most confusing writing advice I’ve ever received is...
by Stephanie Morrill | Jul 13, 2020 | Beginning Writer's Guide To Finishing A Novel, Editing, Theme
The word “theme” can still cause shivers because it calls up my memories of high school English when I had to identify elements like theme or symbolism in five paragraph essays. (The only thing worse was analyzing poetry.) Those essays always left me...
by Stephanie Morrill | Jul 6, 2020 | Beginning Writer's Guide To Finishing A Novel, Characters, Editing
I hope our U.S. writers had an enjoyable and safe 4th of July! Ours was weird with fireworks shows cancelled, but I did go to a friend’s house and watch Hamilton on Disney+. After years of hearing about how great the show is, I was happy for the opportunity to...
by Stephanie Morrill | Jun 22, 2020 | Beginning Writer's Guide To Finishing A Novel, Editing
I’m not going to swear that my method for editing will work for you, but it has served me well over the years. As a kid, I always thought of editing as “tidying up” whatever words I already had on the page. I’m not sure when I realized that...
