Tag: Noob Writers

• How To Handle Negative Feedback

  

  Over the last two weeks, we discussed How To Review a Book, and How To Be a Great Beta Reader. Let’s chat about handling negative feedback today. This can be in the form of a poor review or comments from beta readers. Now, we’re all human here. There will always be that bit of feedback…

  Yolandie Horak

  September 2, 2024

  Writing

  Better Writing, Critique, Giving Critique, Growing as a writer, How to Handle Bad Reviews, How to Handle Critique, How to learn from critique, Indie Writers, Learning from Critique, Let’s Write, Noob Writers, Review, Reviewing, Reviews, Stuff for Writers, Writer, Writer’s Life, Writers’ Resources, Writing, Writing Critique

• 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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• Three Easy Steps to Deep Point of View

  

  Want to level up your writing? Want to connect with your readers? Want to submerge in your character’s mind? The good news is that all three things are super achievable in three easy steps. I’m serious! The title isn’t clickbait, just a tried and trusted method to grow as a writer. All we need to…

  Yolandie Horak

  January 22, 2024

  Writing

  Active Voice, Basic Self-Editing, Better Writing, Common Nouns, Common Writing Mistakes, Deep Point of View, Deep POV, Filter Words, Indie Writers, Let’s Write, Noob Writers, Nouns, Passive Voice, Point of View, Proper Nouns, Stronger Verbs, Stuff for Writers, Writer, Writer’s Life, Writers’ Resources, Writing, Writing Advice, Writing Community, Writing Journey, Writing Life, Writing Process

• 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

  Creativity, Edit, Editing, Learning Something New, Noob Writers, Tips, Writer, Writer’s Life, Writers’ Resources, Writing, Writing Advice