☀️ I Can See All Obstacles in my Way... Bit of housekeeping up at the top here: I have indeed burned through more material than I'd expected in the first quarter of the year, so I'm going to be dropping back to one post every other week for at least a little while. The editorial board apologizes for any inconvenience. Edit For Clarity First "Editing" is one of those terms that is used to cover so many bases that it has almost become meaningless. The person who buys stories, the person who helps develop stories, the person who checks spelling and punctuation, the person who checks for continuity, the person who looks at word choice and sentence structure--all of these people have "editor" in their job title. So needs must that we hone in on one, and over the next few posts, I'm going to be looking at my favorite of these: line-editing. Or "wordsmithing," if you like. Now, most authors find line-editing to be a chore. I love it. I love it so muc
π» Girls, rock your boys, get wild, wild, wild... I've blogged before about how, in art, form follows format . If I may quote myself: "...there's a reason hour-long television shows used to have a 4-act structure with A and B plots--they were built around commercial breaks and you needed things to cut between. Then, with the rise of prestige television and on-demand streaming, that formula largely disappeared and was replaced with serialized cinematic storytelling because that's more bingeable." This holds true across media, and right now fiction is cross-format, existing in print, digital print, and audio. The preferred format is still print, but I have a feeling that this is going to change in a few years and that we should all... Write for Audio Let me first admit my bias. The physical act of reading has always been a bit of a struggle for me (hellooooooo ADHD), so I consume most of the books I read as audio. And there are certain things that books do when tran