The value of forgiving yourself…

If you’re like me — like most people — you probably have a hard time forgiving yourself. Forgiving yourself for mistakes to others is hard enough: the time you forgot to do something you’d promised to do for a friend the time you yelled at your partner or your children the time you failed to […]

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The TV show Frasier solved its continuity problem with a simple explanation

How to edit for continuity (in fiction writing)

Continuity is a term that is largely used in the TV and movie industry. This is because films are rarely shot in the order in which they are presented because the shooting schedule is often dictated by location permit issues. For example, a character may return to Times Square in New York City several times throughout a

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Mistakes I made with my book

Reading time: About 6 minutes Are you considering self-publishing a book? Here are the mistakes I made when producing Your Happy First Draft.  Some 30 years ago, when I was an editor for a large metropolitan daily newspaper, I had a terrible boss. But I was lucky enough to qualify

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Why it’s always better to edit LATER

You have undoubtedly already read some of my many entreaties to break the habit of editing WHILE you write. (For the record, my post with the most useful tips about how to achieve this goal is here.) But today I want to explain in detail the important reasons for taking this step. The first relates

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Some finer points for mindmapping

Do you mindmap regularly? I regularly teach workshops on this practice, so I thought I’d share a few of my super-user tips with you. (If you’re a newcomer to the topic, go here for everything I’ve written or recorded about mindmapping.) Here are my tips: Always put a question in the centre of the page.

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Know when it’s WISE to give up

I’m a very determined person. My husband suspects I have a smallest trace of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and the rest of the family knows not to tell me to “relax” or “give up” when I have my mind firmly set on something. My writing has been a rock-solid habit for more than 10 years

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