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See all posts in the editing category here.
DICTION / VOICE
- Overused Words You Should & Shouldn’t Delete
- When Voice Doesn’t Match (Age Category or Genre)
- The Diction Holy Grail
- Diction: Latinate versus Anglo-Saxon
- Fifteen Blinks: Diction
- Voice: Talk Like a Pirate
- Wednesday on the Web: Link Roundup
REVISING FOR CONTESTS
- Revision Checklist for Writing Contests
- pg70pit—Editing your Excerpt
- 7th on 7th—a series of 4 posts in which I revise other writers’ pages for improved voice.
GENERAL REVISION
- 7 Writing Maxims and What to Do with Them
- Using Spreadsheets to Track Your Revision
- Crafting Chapter One: Resources for Writers
- Quick & Easy Guide to Dashes
- Lay vs. Lie
- Is Good Writing Invisible?
- Formatting your Novel Manuscript (3 part series)
- Formatting Graphic Novels
(See also my categories Fiction, Writing, and Query)
TWITTER TUESDAYS
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Lara Willard 