Category: Revising/editing

• June 2, 2023

  Changes to the second edition of “The Crimson League,” Part 1: Goodbye, Hal!

  Someone on Facebook recently told me she had enjoyed the first edition of The Crimson League (squee!) and asked what changes to expect in the upcoming second edition. (I took my entire trilogy out of circulation years ago to fix things up and make a more professional go of it.) The first major thing anyone…
• May 9, 2023

  One good reason your word count might go up while revising

  

  Like almost all writers, I follow the #WritingCommunity hashtag on Twitter, and someone posted an interesting question recently. He said that he noticed that his word count has been going up while editing/revising his draft. Was this okay? He was concerned because he’d always heard that word count should go down while revising. Generally speaking,…