Someone on kboards recommended this book and since I’ve been debating whether or not to hire an editor, I thought it was probably worth a few bucks to see what the prognosis is for me editing the book myself. This
I made the mistake several months ago, when I was still hovering around 70,000 words in my manuscript, of Googling “how long should a novel be?” There are plenty of opinions, some from credible sources, and even my literary idol
Resist the urge to edit as you go. In Stephen King’s book On Writing, he gives this advice, and I think most writers would do well to heed it. If you have the type of personality that seeks diversions when you
