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Featured posts
Tips for self-publishing authors
Past and present: How to use the two main narrative tenses correctly
How to write dialogue tags: What is a speech verb? (And what definitely isn’t?)
Should you include a content warning in your self-published book?
How to use Microsoft Word like a professional editor
Working with an editor: How to review and manage track changes and comments
Recent blog posts
Working with an editor: How to review and manage track changes and comments
For an editor, working with track changes is as natural as breathing (if it was natural to sometimes forget to breathe for a couple of pages then curse and smash the back button a few times… We’ve all been there!). I know I’ve definitely been guilty in the past of assuming it’s like that for…
A day in the life of a freelance editor and proofreader
The topic of this week’s blog is a little more frivolous and self-indulgent than usual, but I know I’m addicted to “day in the life” type content myself, so I thought it might be interesting to at least some people!
I hope it gives a bit of an insight into what I get up to…
Writing and editing comics: How to use ellipses in comics and graphic novels
An ellipsis can completely change how we understand a sentence, a character’s intentions, a whole scene. But – especially in comics – I so often see them underused/overused/with two or four or even more dots!
So if you’ve ever been guilty of any of the above, or if you’re simply curious about how punctuation in…
It’s all about perspective: Third-person limited POV
Like first-person perspective, third-person limited perspective filters the events of the story through a single character (or two or three or even more characters, as long as the transitions between their separate sections are clear). But in third-person limited, instead of writing directly from the character’s POV using “I”, the narrative is written as though…
It’s all about perspective: Third-person omniscient POV
In third-person omniscient perspective, the narrator has the god-like ability to see and understand all of your characters at all times. They know what your characters are thinking, they know all about your character’s pasts and futures, and they can see things your characters can’t.
It’s all about perspective: First-person POV
A story written in first-person perspective is one where the narrator is directly involved in the events, and the narrator therefore relays the events to the reader using the pronouns “I”, “me”, “my” – or “we”, “us”, “our” when they’re part of a group – as though they’re telling the reader about something that happened/is…
