Every Monday, I go LIVE on Facebook to talk about the author mindset. Today, I discussed internal validation and how you can find it by taking a moment to reflect on what you already achieved.Read More →
Every Monday, I go LIVE on Facebook to talk about the author mindset. Today, I talked about comparing yourself to others and pursuing your dreams and desires in your own way.
Camp NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) April commences in just 5 days! A little different from the November NaNo, Camp NaNoWriMo invites all kinds of word count goals, and all kinds of writing projects.
To support you through—or rather, after—Camp NaNoWriMo April, I am giving away a FREE manuscript critique of a manuscript or selection of short stories worth AT LEAST $500/£400/€450 to April Campers.
Do you write in English or Dutch? Did you or are you going to sign up for Camp NaNoWriMo April 2018? Are you going to work on a novella, novel-length manuscript, or a selection of short stories? Then, yes.
A manuscript critique of your finished manuscript or selection of short stories.Read More →
Happy New Year, everyone! To all the words that will be written, edited, cut, and rewritten in 2018!
As I was going over 2017 in the past few days, and was pondering the things I want to keep doing in 2018, one of the recurring themes was the wish to keep giving back to the community as much as I can. As you all know, I always organise a giveaway around the National Novel Writing Months, but last November, I couldn’t do it. Not only had I already committed to the Advanced Novel Writing with Harry Potter Special Offer organised by The World Needs Your Books, but I was also spent. I had taken on so much work in the months preceding NaNoWriMo—and I’m utterly grateful that I got to work on so many brilliant projects, don’t get me wrong!—and I was done. Finished. I couldn’t even complete my own NaNoWriMo goal, let alone take on more work by organising a giveaway.
But… after a week in the sun, and a month of taking it slow, I’m back. Re-energised, looking forward to what 2018 will bring, and ready to give back again!
To celebrate the start of what promises to be quite the rollercoaster—if I have to believe my yoga teacher, and she tends to be right about stuff like this—I am giving away a FREE full developmental edit.
Do you write fiction or nonfiction? Are you planning on finishing a manuscript in the coming 12 months? Then yes!
In three weeks’ time, National Novel Writing Month will begin. Hundreds of thousands of writers across the world. 30 days. 50,000 words before the end of November.
But then what? What are you going to do with that pile of words come December? Put it in a drawer? Rewrite? Find beta readers?
Or are you going to enter a giveaway for a full developmental edit of your NaNoWriMo 2016 project? I thought so.
Did you or are you going to sign up for NaNoWriMo 2016? Then, yes. Do you write in English or Dutch? Then, yes.
A full developmental edit up to 50K words.
A developmental edit is a content edit that helps you develop every single aspect of your story, including plot, characters, structure, pace, voice, audience, and setting. It points out larger issues and zooms in on every little detail. A full developmental edit will get you two separate documents. The first document will contain my overall assessment and advice on the story as a whole, including strengths and weaknesses. The second document will contain your work including extensive comments, suggestions, and track changes on all aspects of your story.