Tag: #editing

• Breaking Up – A Writer’s Life

  

  Donuts Anyone? There’s nothing that can kill enthusiasm more than disappointment. The higher the place of success and vision, the harder the fall. I was granted a new team, finally, after years of lobbying and cajoling how necessary a team was needed. I have a staff, ambitious, ready to take on the challenge of forging…

  CGraith

  February 26, 2022

  writing

  #editing, bad relationship, creative, cubicles, dead relationship, office life, team dynamics, writing tips

• Connect the Dots – Editing Tip

  

  First draft writing is a blast. For me, it’s usually full steam ahead, word count racking up, while I’m in a cloud of creative bliss. Except, for those moments when there’s a the screech of brakes and I’m staring at the screen pecking out a word here, a word there, back spacing more than entering.…

  CGraith

  August 25, 2021

  writing

  #editing, #writing better, commercial fiction, setting up scenes, writer’s block

• Counting on Success

  Repost due to yesterday’s glitch I’m a numbers person. Not math, strings of numbers. It gives me pleasure when a number is assigned to a record by the system and it has order like, 828928, or if I look at the clock and it says:11:11. Don’t get me started on dates. Every month last year,…

  CGraith

  January 22, 2021

  writing

  #editing, #word count, Query letter, writing