Month: April 2025

• Let’s Write – The Structural Edit: Conflict & Resolution

  

  Welcome to this week’s instalment of our series on How To Self-Edit. We’ve already covered: Today, we’ll discuss conflict and resolution. Let’s get to it. Conflict and Resolution Every story, no matter what genre, must include conflict. Many of us read the word conflict and immediately think ‘fight’ but that’s not necessarily the case. Define…

  Yolandie Horak

  April 28, 2025

  Writing

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• Let’s Write – The Structural Edit: Flow & Pace

  

  Welcome back to our series on How To Self-Edit. We’ve already covered: Today we’ll talk about flow and pace, a duo of story elements that influence how excited or bored our audience will be while reading our books. Define Flow and Pace Pace is the speed/tempo at which the story is told. Meanwhile, flow is…

  Yolandie Horak

  April 21, 2025

  Writing

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• Let’s Write – The Structural Edit: Characters

  

  Welcome back to our series about self-editing! We’ve already covered The Basics of Self-Editing and The Structural Edit – Plot and Setting. Today is all about characters. We’re going to cover: As the title suggests, this post breaks down those character development and POV issues we should look for while we edit our manuscripts. But…

  Yolandie Horak

  April 14, 2025

  Writing

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• Let’s Write – The Structural Edit: Plot & Setting

  

  We kicked off this series about the basics of self-editing in last week’s post. For the next few weeks, we’ll discuss the first step of self-editing, the structural edit. Structural or developmental editing is the phase of the editing process where we focus on the individual elements of our stories and ensure that each fits…

  Yolandie Horak

  April 7, 2025

  Writing

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