Tag: Edit

• 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: The Basics of Self-Editing The Structural Edit: Plot & Setting The Structural Edit: Characters The Structural Edit: Flow & Pace The Structural Edit: Conflict & Resolution The Structural Edit: Voice & Style Today, we’ll focus on…

  Yolandie Horak

  May 12, 2025

  Writing

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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: The Basics of Self-Editing The Structural Edit: Plot & Setting The Structural Edit: Characters The Structural Edit: Flow & Pace The Structural Edit: Conflict & Resolution Today, we’ll wrap up the structural edit by delving…

  Yolandie Horak

  May 5, 2025

  Writing

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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: The Basics of Self-Editing The Structural Edit: Plot & Setting The Structural Edit: Characters The Structural Edit: Flow & Pace Today, we’ll discuss conflict and resolution. Let’s get to it. Conflict and Resolution Every story, no matter what genre, must…

  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: The Basics of Self-Editing The Structural Edit: Plot & Setting The Structural Edit: Characters 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…

  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: Crafting unique voices Writing great dialogue Choosing the right point of view As the title suggests, this post breaks down those character development and…

  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

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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…

  Yolandie Horak

  March 31, 2025

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• Easy Self-Editing – Redundancies (Pleonasms)

  

  The first draft of A Study of Ash & Smoke was riddled with redundancies, AKA pleonasms. My editor, Nerine Dorman, took to my debut manuscript with a kill-it-with-fire vehemence and likely mumbled a million curses at the ceiling as she removed them (among other issues) from my very *cough, cough* unpolished novel. I’ve said this…

  Yolandie Horak

  April 22, 2024

  Writing

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• Behind the Scenes – Editing

  

  I figure I might as well clue you all in on how it goes behind the scenes. You know, the stuff you don’t see on my posed and filtered Instagram feed. Everybody who knows me knows I’m currently editing A Trial of Sparks & Kindling. I haven’t been shy about that fact so far. But…

  Yolandie Horak

  November 14, 2019

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• Noob Writers Unite

  

  I had a conversation about writing with my cousin, as we often do. Afterwards, I kept thinking how great it would have been if I’d known which mistakes to avoid when I just started writing. Yes, I could have googled something stupid, like how to write a novel. Today, the ‘duh’ is weighty enough to…

  Yolandie Horak

  June 21, 2017

  Writing

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