Find out the most common dialogue mistakes that plague fiction writers in this sample video from the online course Book Editing Blueprint: A Step-By-Step Plan to Making Your Novels Publishable. The video discusses how to edit speech length, dialogue punctuation,…
How To Edit Dialogue: Free Lesson From Book Editing Blueprint
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SURVEY RESULTS: Discover the Biggest Writing & Editing Struggles
March 21, 2020 by
This video was originally created for the Shortcuts for Writers Facebook group and shares the results of a survey I did. In that survey, I asked writers what editing issues gave them the most trouble and what MUST be included…
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What is Writing Like For You?
July 8, 2011 by Stacy Juba
My friend Darcia Helle invited me to continue a blog meme on the topic Writing is like… Darcia was tagged by author Jason McIntyre to share her thoughts on this subject, and then Darcia asked me to continue the meme. For me, writing is like meditation. When I’m working on my computer, writing a story…
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My 7-Part Writing Journey
May 15, 2011 by Stacy Juba
Novelspot, a neat web site for writers and readers, invited me to participate in one of their special features – Behind the Scenes, in which authors share their writing journeys in seven short installments. They publish one post each day for an entire week. I was really thrilled with how it turned out and invite…
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What Kids Taught Me About Writing
January 17, 2011 by Stacy Juba
I hope everyone has enjoyed their long weekend so far. Just a quick note to share that I have a special guest post running at the blog Motherhoot. If you haven’t discovered this great blog yet, it’s a place where you can find a lot of moaning, groaning and laughing about family life. My post…
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