Proof it!

I am at the tail end of my edits for my latest novel. It's taking forever, but I think it is shaping up well. For a while there it all seemed like one big hot mess. However, words have fallen into place, the plot has come together, all the pieces of the puzzle that make up a novel seem to be fitting for now. Today, in my quest for any editing help, I came across this great blog post:http://tammysalyer.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/how-to-avoid-the-red-pen-of-death/ It is a wonderful post on proofreading effectively. Hope it helps!

Go Ahead! Build Your World!

So, I have been very busy writing lately. I am on the tail end of completing my latest novel, which really required me to create an entirely different reality and world. It was a long, arduous process filled with many hours of thinking and sleepless nights imagining what this world and these characters would be like. Therefore, it would seem that this link, http://www.sfwa.org/2009/08/fantasy-worldbuilding-questions/, referred to me by one of my favorite blog sites now, the steampunk blog STEAMED at http://ageofsteam.wordpress.com/, has come a bit too late. Still, it is always beneficial to check yourself against the experts' idea of how a world should be built, just in case you forgot those tiny little things, like whether your characters sweeten their drinks or if their buttons are glass or metal or what their favorite curse word is. What I've learned most of all in this process is that the details matter. A lot.

If you are building your own world now, good luck, good writing, and I hope this link helps!

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