Review Your Work

Do you give yourself time to make revisions?

I could have settled for the versions of the magazine articles I’d completed a few weeks ago. I’d already gone over the layouts several times.

Since they were for the next issue, I had set them aside while I completed this one.

But today as I revisited those pages, I kept seeing aspects I could improve. … Continue reading

Does Your Novel Have a Hook?

Don’t detour readers from your story.IMG_7501 2to3

by Andy Scheer

The first sentence told me the novel was in trouble. The rest of the paragraph confirmed that. And the second paragraph was no better.

Fortunately, the author had sent me the genre novel for a critique. So I was able to show her where she … Continue reading