Dialogue is a funny thing. It is the voice of your characters, but it is not necessarily always the voice of your narrative (especially when you’re writing in third person). This means that not only do you have to figure out how to give your story a voice, but also each individual character (wow, writing is hard y’all). Anyway, here are a few tips that I’ve picked up as I’ve been writing and revising. Common Problems When Writing Dialogue: Problem:  Overly formal dialogue. Fo

Next up in Adventures in Revising…Deleting WHOLE scenes.These are my lessons in mapping out my story (this can happen either before or...

I was reading  Miss Snark’s First Victim  and Authoress had a really great point about hiring an editor for revisions. To paraphrase  she pretty much says that you shouldn’t hire her for her professional critiquing services if your work has never had eyes on it (i.e. a CP or Beta Reader). For one thing, those people read your work for free, for another, they catch some of the small stuff (i.e. grammar, incorrect tenses, plot holes, etc). When you hire someone to edit, you wan

I have a slightly obsessive personality. So when I get into something I do a lot of research and (over) analyze the heck out of it. So...