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FOR WRITERS: What’s Your Beta/Edit Process?

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Scott: Once your manuscript is written and redrafted into decent shape, what are your beta/editing steps? Writers: This is a writer chat – you are welcome to share your own book/link, as long as it fits the chat, but please do so as part of a discussion about the topic. Chat on FacebookChat on MeWe

FOR WRITERS: The Second Time Around

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Scott: When it’s time to rerelease a book, what do you do to get it ready? A full rewrite? Light edits? What’s your rerelease process? Writers: This is a writer chat – you are welcome to share your own book/link, as long as it fits the chat, but please do so as part of a discussion about the topic. Join the chat: FB: http://bit.ly/1MvPABVMeWe: http://bit.ly/2mjg8lf

FOR WRITERS: Let’s Hear It For the WIP

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Scott: One of the tools I’ve been using lately for later drafts is to use a text-reading app to listen to my work. It takes me outside of it, and helps me catch typos, duplicate words and iissues with the flow. Do you do the same? If so, how does it help you and what app do you use? Writers: This is a writer chat – you are welcome to share your own book/link, as long as it fits the chat, but please do so as part of a discussion about the … Read more

FOR WRITERS: The Edit List

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Scott: I have a long list of grammatical and style issues I know I have as a writer, gleaned from a bunch of professional edits of my work. I use this before submitting each story. Do you have such a list, and if so, what are the most egregious things on it? Writers: This is a writer chat – you are welcome to share your own book/link, as long as it fits the chat, but please do so as part of a discussion about the topic. Join the chat: FB: http://bit.ly/1MvPABVMeWe: http://bit.ly/2mjg8lf

FOR EDITORS: What Turns You On?

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FOR EDITORS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Ryane Chatman: Editors: What is the most fun you have during your process editing someone else’s work? Writers: This is an editor chat – you are welcome to join it, but please do not reference your own works directly. Thanks! Join the chat: FB: http://bit.ly/1MvPABVMeWe: http://bit.ly/2mjg8lf

FOR WRITERS: Balancing it All

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Paula Wyant: How do you balance it all? Evil Day Job, writing, editing/revising, other hobbies and interests, sleep (I’m pretty sure J. Scott does’t sleep, but for the rest of us mere mortals…)…Not to mention household stuff, family stuff, etc. Writers: This is a writer chat – you are welcome to share your own book/link, as long as it fits the chat, but please do so as part of a discussion about the topic. Join the chat: FB: http://bit.ly/1MvPABVMeWe: http://bit.ly/2mjg8lf

FOR WRITERS: When Editors Attack

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Dave Fragments: A truly daunting set of questions in so many ways – have you ever had an issue with an editor? Have editors asked you to remove scenes? Has an editor ever objected to the “gayness” of a story? Has an editor ever told you to quit writing because he/she thinks you are a hack and/or a bad writer? No names please. :) Join the chat

Asta’s Annotations: Epithets (Editing Tip for Authors)

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Today I am wearing my editor hat and talking to the QSF authors out there (although readers may also find the discussion of interest). The topic I would like to discuss is the issue of epithets. This is something I see from authors across genres; however, it tends to be prevalent in LGBT fiction, no doubt because authors are trying to accommodate for the fact that they often have two leads of the same gender, between whom they need to differentiate.

Perhaps some of you are thinking, “What’s an epithet?”

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Asta’s Annotations: The Death of Punctuation, or the Decline of the Reader?

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Anyone who knows me well will know semicolons are punctuation marks about which my views are passionate. Unfortunately, many digital/small publishing houses do not appear to agree. Notes from editors frequently come through to me with requests to remove all (or at least some) of my semicolons since they are ‘specialised punctuation’. My response to this (in my head) is to ask: Since when? Now, this column is by no means intended as a rant against any publishers or fellow editors; I merely use it to illustrate a point. I fully accept that each publishing house has its own preferences, … Read more