Monthly Archives: October 2012

Read Like a Reader, Write Like a Writer

Posted on October 30, 2012 by

by Tim Kane I recently needed to read through my entire manuscript one last time, yet I needed to see the text as a reader, not a writing. It seems weird to say, but there is a difference. When I … Continue reading →

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Pesky Pronouns

Posted on October 25, 2012 by

by Tim Kane Recently, I set to work editing down the pronouns in my manuscript. No short order. In the process of weeding them out, I sliced away 4000 words. Yet even then, I wasn’t done. Passing the book onto … Continue reading →

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Indulge Yourself to Boost Writer Morale

Posted on October 23, 2012 by

by Tim Kane Writing is a tough business. Mostly because it’s one of the few where you toil away for one to twenty years without a paycheck. That makes pulling up a chair and typing night after night daunting. There … Continue reading →

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Literary Agents Are Gamblers

Posted on October 18, 2012 by

by Tim Kane Let me state from the start, I am not now, nor will I become an agent. That’s a hard job all the way around. However, I know and have worked with a few over the years. On … Continue reading →

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Copyrighting: A Sign of Writer Paranoia?

Posted on October 16, 2012 by

Tim Kane I recall, as a starting writer, I was so paranoid about people stealing my writing that I slapped the copyright symbol on everything. I even employed the poor man’s copyright. I printed out a copy of each short … Continue reading →

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Use Search and Replace to Revise Your Manuscript

Posted on October 11, 2012 by

by Tim Kane After slogging through multiple rewrites, I thought I was done. Then came the critique. I had overused the same sort of physical reaction over and over again in the book. I turned to the best tool I … Continue reading →

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How to Take Critique

Posted on October 9, 2012 by

by Tim Kane If you’re going to make it anywhere in the writing world, you’ll have to survive your share of critiques: agents, publishers, or fellow writers. The former two are not always kind and that’s why you need to … Continue reading →

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