Reducing your word count can serve more purposes than saving money with your editor or meeting contest guidelines. The more you hone your writing style, the stronger your writing becomes.
What editing service do you need?
by Cayce Berryman / February 17, 2021
/ Finding a freelancer, Path to publication, Revision stage, Uncategorized
Most fiction authors need one of the following: proofreading, copyediting, line editing, developmental editing, and formatting. Some may know how to format their own books and others may only need a copy editor (and ideally a proofreader, too), but most authors will want some combination of the above. This post will cover three types of editing.
Why is it so difficult to find a fitting name for your character? Sometimes, all it takes is looking through baby name websites or your friends list, but what if they're from a certain time period? What about the characters who don't fit any of the names your finding? What if you want to be different without being absurd?
Subplots not only spice up your story, but they add depth to it as well. You add in a subplot or three or four, and your story will be filled with tension and wonder and excitement. Hopefully, they'll also serve as foils for your character(s) in a way that prepares them for their goal, too.
When writing dialogue, what do you do with periods or quotation marks? Multiple paragraphs of dialogue, quotes within quotes, and even action tags change the location of punctuation within and around quotation marks.