by MK England | May 4, 2016 | Drafting, Editing, Writing Process
Typically when something makes me angry, I’m tempted to immediately fight back with an extremely pissed off torrent of logic that overwhelms my opponent. Just ask my partner. I know it’s not the best reaction, so I’ve worked hard to chill out a bit and take some time...
by MK England | Mar 9, 2016 | Drafting, Editing, Writing Groups, Writing Process
Getting critiqued is hard. There’s really no way around it. When you first start getting hardcore critiqued, it hurts. It took me the better part of a year to grow thick enough skin to really get something useful out of my critiques, and I felt horrible the entire...
by MK England | May 27, 2015 | Editing, Personal, Writing Process
Every writer’s worst nightmare is a dead computer. Okay, maybe not every writer. Every writer who writes on a computer. Every writer who isn’t quite as diligent about backing up their work as they should be. Every writer who has a slowly-declining laptop and knows the...
by MK England | Mar 31, 2015 | Editing, Writing Process
I’ve only written two full novels, but I seem to have already developed a standard editing procedure. Both novels were drafted using completely different methods, but the editing process has been (thus far) nearly identical. Everyone has their own process that works...
by MK England | Mar 24, 2015 | Writer Friend Features
The Writer Friend Feature is back this month with guest star Mara Fitzgerald, pictured to the right with her TBR list on her head because she’s good like that. I met her through the YA Buccaneers Spring Writing Bootcamp in 2014 when we were assigned to the same...
