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A week of writing
The reason you haven’t heard much out of me this week is becuase I finally got myself into gear! I feel that I am finally on a roll with Into the Flames, and I’ve written about six thousand words since Tuesday. Yup. I’m going to give myself a pat on the back now. And because […]
Posted in Into the Flames
Tagged as: Bracken, Into the Flames, Rahab, writing
Who am I, and what’s so great about editing, anyway?
So my name is Jessie Sanders, and I am an editor. Hopefully you have figured that out by now. But what you may still be wondering is how I came to be an editor and what exactly it is that I do. You weren’t? Oh, well, you’re going to find out anyway! My Editing Journey […]
Posted in Editing, Personal
Tagged as: conceptual editing, copyediting, editing, my life, The Consortium, writing
Jump Off a Cliff
Okay, I’m going to admit it. I’ve been a bad, bad girl the past few weeks when it comes to my own writing. So today I’m going to share a little peice of advice that I really need to take and apply to my own life. Stephen King says, “The scariest moment is always just […]
Posted in Writing
Tagged as: stephen king, writing
Endings and Beginnings
I finished reading Stein on Writing. Last week Stein spurred me to rewrite my culminating scene with more tension. I’ve also talked a bit about how he inspired the ultimate conflict in my novel. This weekend I spent an hour working on a new first paragraph. Stein’s last section in his book was on the art of […]
Posted in Into the Flames
Tagged as: Into the Flames, Rahab, writing
The Clash of Wants
I’m probably going to be talking a lot about Sol Stein in the next few weeks. Sorry, I’ve been reading him to buff up on my editing skillzzzzz, so please bear with me. Sol Stein is a self-celebrated writer and editor, and I don’t think that his own hype is unwarranted. He’s got some great […]
Posted in Into the Flames
Tagged as: Bracken, how to write, Rahab, Stein, writing
Tension in Writing
Sol Stein writes this is in his chapter on tension: “Our instinct as human beings is to provide answers, to ease tenion. As writers our job is the opposite, to create tension and not dispel it immediatly….A common fault I’ve observed is that the writer creates a pressing problem for a character and then immediatly […]
Posted in Into the Flames
Tagged as: how to write, Stein, writing