It’s NaNoWriMo season. National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)—where writers try to write 50,000 words during the month of November. It’s divisive. Writers tend to love NaNoWriMo or hate it. One of my writer friends...
Read MoreDevelopmental Editing Developmental editing is the first level of editing, and you can think of it as fixing cracks in the foundation. If your foundation is wonky, there are holes in your plot, or you characters aren’t...
Read MoreI love writing letters. It’s a kind of church for me—a quiet, ceremonial thing I do that connects me back to myself (rather than my circumstances at that moment), and the world. When I write a letter, I wait until I have a...
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