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Often Misunderstood Writing Advice: “Resist the urge to edit your first draft.”

How many times have you heard authors advise you shouldn’t go back and edit while writing your first draft? For decades, I believed this was optional advice – Advice to help writers push forward if they were having trouble making progress. I figured it was just another piece of well-meant advice for writers to getContinue reading “Often Misunderstood Writing Advice: “Resist the urge to edit your first draft.””

Adventures in Editing (and Ghostwriting)

I used to find it annoying when editors would complain endlessly about writers not following submission guidelines. (Is Arial really so hard to read? Is it too difficult to highlight everything with CTRL+A and change the font to Times New Roman 12 point? Do you honestly need the document double-spaced when the process is all-digitalContinue reading “Adventures in Editing (and Ghostwriting)”