Posts tagged horror.
The Costa Coffee Short Story Awards, more editing and mapping your fantasy world

From here on out it should be plain sailing (he says furiously touching wood) because the rest of my first draft was written over the last year. The quality of writing is better, the narrative is clearer, it’s fresher in my mind and fewer edits or rewrites are required.

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Editing your WIP: Making it look like you knew what you were doing all along

I’ve just kept one piece advice in my head, one mantra that I fixate on and has become the focal point of my editing. It’s something I heard Neil Gaiman say about editing: “the second draft is about making it look like you knew what you were doing all along.” It’s those few words that are getting me through right now.

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