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The New Character Template
The Character Template: Build a Character You Can Come Back To Every writer has a graveyard of half-finished character sheets. Mine used to live in Word documents named things like char_notes_FINAL_v3.docx. The template was fine. The problem was everything around it: no consisten…
Introducing the Studio
Craft Tools Accessible from Anywhere Most of the tools we lean on as writers live somewhere else. The character sheet is a Word doc in a folder we forget the name of. The worldbuilding notes are scattered across three apps. The "read it out loud and catch the lumps" pass happens …
Polishing your manuscript
In my last post, I shared some tips from an editor. Their first point of advice was to polish your manuscript, especially if it was not yet complete. I’m driving to the conclusion of my first draft of a new novel and want to take their advice to heart. To do that, I needed to…
Advice from an Editor
I had the opportunity to seek some advice from a professional editor. I did not ask specifics about my work in this conversation, but did ask for some generic guidance applicable to authors trying to break into the fiction market. Here is what they had to say: Polish Your Manuscr…