Author: Yolandie Horak
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Let’s Write – The Basics of Self-Editing: Common Mistakes
Phew, we made it! Welcome to the final instalment in our series on How To Self-Edit. We’ve already discussed: Today, we’ll focus on the common mistakes found in our writing. You know, those little gremlins that slip into even the tightest manuscript, and leave writers pulling out their hair. The good news is these issues…
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Let’s Write – The Structural Edit: Voice & Style
We’re back with another addition to our series on How To Self-Edit. During the last handful of weeks, we’ve discussed: Today, we’ll wrap up the structural edit by delving into authorial voice and style. Let’s go! Voice and Style We touched on voice while discussing character development, and many of the points raised there apply…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Let’s Write – The Basics of Self-Editing
The editing process has always intrigued me—a fascination that most authors don’t share, I know. But it still blows my mind how applying grammatical and stylistic rules can take a manuscript from so-so to great, and that with minimal effort. And the best part is that self-editing is an easy skill all authors can learn…
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Let’s Write – Tenses
Back in the olden days, storytelling was often limited to a shallow or omnipotent third point of view set in the past tense. Nowadays, authors utilise deeper points of view to submerge readers, and we’ve seen an uptick in stories written in the present tense. And I’m totally here for it. But as storytelling changes,…
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Stained Glass Dragon Embroidery
If you haven’t claimed last week’s faux stained glass dragon embroidery pattern, no worries! You can still download the design here. Meanwhile, I threaded my darning needle and got to work on the design. I’d initially planned to fill some of the larger areas with my punch needle, but ended up unravelling those bits. I…
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Freebie – Stained Glass Dragon Pattern
My recent interest in embroidery led to a needle shoved so deep beneath my fingernail that I legit blacked out. And instead of retiring all pointy objects in my house, I’ve created a new pattern that I intend to embroider. Because why not? I’m obsessed with stained glass. It’s a bit of a thing with…
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