Often you will hear writers and editors talk about an aspect of dialogue called the said bookism. I first learned this term many years ago from the excellent writing podcast Writing Excuses. Since then, proper use of dialogue indicators has become one of my biggest editing crusades. Let’s talk about …
Back in January, my family took me to see The Man Who Invented Christmas at the cheap theater. I highly recommend this excellent movie. It was released last November and then unceremoniously booted from many theaters by The Last Jedi (which, let’s face it, was quite disappointing and really not …
I’ve written a series of articles on the editing process for a publisher I worked for, Crystal Publishing, and they were kind enough to let me re-post the articles here on my blog. Here is the first installment. See the full newsletter at the link above. Every editor and publishing company …
