Part of being a successful adult is making time to reset, refuel, and recharge.
When you're working, take hourly break to stretch, hydrate, rest your eyes. Take several daily breaks to get food, refuel the brain, and do something not work related. Take weekly breaks from work.
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Unless there is a lot of money on the table or some other demonic deadline, don’t lose sleep over writing. It’s not healthy. There’s no advantage to stressing yourself out and making yourself miserable while writing a book.
Have fun!
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Doing a first pass edit for a client this afternoon and noticing a lack of goals for the POV character. Your characters need to want something.
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What does it cost to hire a freelance editor? It depends on the kind of book you need edited and what kind of editing you want done.
The Editorial Freelancers Association has a calculator. www.the-efa.org/rate...
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A brown dog has its nose in a book.
I have openings for new editing clients in May and June. If you're getting a book ready to query, thinking of writing a new book, or want someone to read your work to let you know it's working... let me help!
www.lianabrooks.com/...
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I'll be honest, a lot of the struggle with writing the first draft of a scene with Big Emotions is just screaming in your own head in a small panic as you try to get coherent words on the page. Books are hard to write.
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Getting from "I have an idea!" to "I finished my book!" takes a lot more work than some people think. And a lot more time. Give yourself space and time to work.
Then hire me if you need help.
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I take physical notes during the first read of a client's work and, I admit, I've fallen in love with the 0.38 ballpoint tips the local stationary store has. I can fit a lot of notes on a page.
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Write it messy.
Write it bad.
Write it out of order.
You can edit anything you write, but you can't edit a blank page. You've got to write.
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Sitting down to read for a client and edit this afternoon. If you have questions about writing or publishing feel free to @ me.
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Big, emotional scenes are only emotional for the reader if the reader knows the characters. We have to care. The good news is humans pack bond easily, so it doesn't take much work to make us care.
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It all matters. The words you write. The words you delete. The words you think. The words you say.
It all matters because it all becomes part of you and how you write.
Time spent doing what you love is never wasted time.
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Start with lower stakes and then escalate as the book progresses, often forcing the characters to choose from their original goal to another one and using the friction of indecision to power the plot.
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If you can take your character out of the book and nothing about the ending changes, they aren't the main character.
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I have openings for new editing clients in May and June. If you're getting a book ready to query, thinking of writing a new book, or want someone to read your work to let you know it's working... let me help!
www.lianabrooks.com/...
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Tropes and cliches are like pizza and milkshakes and fries. They may not be astounding and new, but they are delicious and we all have our favorites.
If you find yourself writing the same ones all the time, awesome! Call it your brand and enjoy what you love.
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A brown dog has its nose in a book.
I have openings for new editing clients in May and June. If you're getting a book ready to query, thinking of writing a new book, or want someone to read your work to let you know it's working... let me help!
www.lianabrooks.com/...
#LianaEdits #AmWriting
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I offer Developmental and Line Edits that help you get your book from Rough Draft to Ready For The Debut. I also offer one off consults and coaching to help you get your book done. Let me help you get your book from Ow to WOW!
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One of the most crucial skills any author needs to learn is recognizing how they write a first draft. If you are a super planner with a really clean first draft, awesome! If you underwrite and need to add details in Draft 2, do that! If you meander a lot, learn to refocus.
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I have an opening for a new editing client in April. Get a 10% discount if you mention seeing this ad!
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If you think publishing is writing a book in one draft, running spellcheck, and then hitting Publish on Amazon... please talk to an author and ask them about publishing. I promise, it takes more work than that to get a good book.
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Writing Tip Of The Day: If you're planning to publish it helps to have a file where you can drop pull quotes into. While you're editing grab the lines that stand out to you so you can use them for promo later.
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How you end chapters (and your book!) helps determine what genre your book is. Endings of sentences, scenes, chapters, and books all add weight to the thought and emotion they end on. If you keep ending on questions, it's a mystery. If you end with fear, it's horror.
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Part of being a successful adult is making time to reset, refuel, and recharge.
When you're working, take hourly break to stretch, hydrate, rest your eyes. Take several daily breaks to get food, refuel the brain, and do something not work related. Take weekly breaks from work.
#LianaEdits
A brown dog has its nose in a book.
My April editing client is rescheduling so I am offering a 10% coupon to anyone booking an April edit so I can fill this slot. I can take your novel on April 6th and the edits will be done by the first week of May unless the novel is over 100k.
#LianaEdits #AmWriting
www.lianabrooks.com/...
Unless there is a lot of money on the table or some other demonic deadline, don’t lose sleep over writing. It’s not healthy. There’s no advantage to stressing yourself out and making yourself miserable while writing a book.
Have fun!
#LianaEdits #AmWriting #WritingAdvice #Publishing
A brown dog has its nose in a book.
My April editing client is rescheduling so I am offering a 10% coupon to anyone booking an April edit so I can fill this slot. I can take your novel on April 6th and the edits will be done by the first week of May unless the novel is over 100k.
#LianaEdits #AmWriting
www.lianabrooks.com/...
What does it cost to hire a freelance editor? It depends on the kind of book you need edited and what kind of editing you want done.
The Editorial Freelancers Association has a calculator. www.the-efa.org/rate...
#LianaEdits #Publishing #PubTip
I'll be honest, a lot of the struggle with writing the first draft of a scene with Big Emotions is just screaming in your own head in a small panic as you try to get coherent words on the page. Books are hard to write.
#AmWriting #LianaEdits
A black fountain pen writes in cursive on a lined page.
My April editing client is rescheduling so I am offering a 10% coupon to anyone booking an April edit so I can fill this slot. I can take your novel on April 6th and the edits will be done by the first week of May unless the novel is over 100k.
#LianaEdits #AmWriting
www.lianabrooks.com/...
