When your favorite words become a problem
Editing
The Cutting Room: The Readers
A look at all the people who read a story before it hits the shelves
The Cutting Room: It Takes A Village
Why having a critique group is crucial for the editing process of an emerging writer
The Cutting Room: “Phone Edits”
How changing things up can help a writer shift from writing to editing.
The Cutting Room Floor
What to do when your book turns out to be two books
The Cutting Room Floor
Learning to keep it short, then keep it long.
The Cutting Room Floor
How I killed the comet flyby, and why it had it coming
Room for Growth
I've come a long way since Wide Horizon
In Closing
Reflections on three years of hard work, and the novel they produced
Resolution
Time to tie up loose ends...