Why You Should Write A Crappy First Draft
Writing a bad first draft can help you avoid writer’s block. Instead of trying to write a good first draft, just focus on creativity and write. Edit later!
Writing a bad first draft can help you avoid writer’s block. Instead of trying to write a good first draft, just focus on creativity and write. Edit later!
Have you ever used Microsoft Word’s “readability statistics” function? It gives your document a score, as a grade level, based on something called the Flesch-Kincaid analysis, which purported to be the grade level a reader would have to have attained to understand the piece. How helpful or accurate is the function? Turns out it s…
Publisher Sulis International is seeking submissions for all imprints: Sulis International Press General and academic nonfiction Keledei Publications Non-fiction religion Legal Yankee Publications Nonfiction legal education Riversong Books: Fiction How is my book distributed? We supply print books to Amazon.com (worldwide) and Ingram (worldwide), and will also be made available to all online stores, brick-and-mortar stores, and…
In our last post, we discussed and linked to an article about the importance of multiple editing rounds. As noted, we do in-house proofreading for our authors, and offer more detailed editing services to all writers (whether signed to us or not). As proof that typos make it into even the most popular works, here…
At Sulis International, we alwasy stress to our authors the importance of an outside editor. No writer can catch all the problems with their own work. We have an in-house proofreader for typos, basic grammar, and punctuation, but we require our authors to send us clean manuscripts (that’s one way we save money and offer…
From PR Daily. Click below to read the full article. PR pros write, edit, review and rewrite dozens of documents each day. Sometimes, all that copy can blur together—and it can become challenging to make your prose fresh. Here are four quick tips to help you keep your writing lively, interesting and inspired: 1. Get…
There are many celebrated writers in this world, but few ever reach the rockstar-level status of dark fantasy author Neil Gaiman. Fans stand in line for hours at his book signings, only to faint when they finally meet him (or ask him to sign their body so they can get his signature tattooed). His beloved…
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The following article is by Janice Hardy the founder of Fiction University, and the author of the teen fantasy trilogy The Healing Wars. Click here to view full article at blog.janicehardy.com Although most word count problems are too many words, the too-short novel does happen. I’ve talked before about things to do to bulk up a…
Riversong Books is pleased to announce the publication reprint of Amazing Stories, Volume 1, Number 1—the classic SF pulp magazine that started it all. This premiere issue contains stories by Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Edgar Allen Poe, and more.
We have recreated the size and two-column layout of the original 1926 issue, and carefully edited, formatted, and typeset the original text. Archaic spellings and words have been left untouched, only edited for punctuation, typographical errors, and formatting.