It’s All Relative
Well, you’re just an editor, and like the old adage, those who can, do, and those who can’t, teach. I hear this hum of noise about how rigidity doesn’t allow for the free flow of creativity, that somehow the true beauty of the written word exists inside us, and the method for how to deliver it has nothing to do with great…Read More

Why, why, why?
“He had a Midwestern way about him…”
There is a charm to our writing sometimes. We spill it out like blood and love the way it sounds, but the reader may not be as enamored as you think. The reader might find questions to your assertions, and a technique I use when working with writers is “WHY?”
This is a technique easier to…Read More

There are lessons, and there are gripes. The lessons are often pretty common in popularity, by literary professors, well known writers, etc. They might be as simple as how punctuation works, or they might be as sophisticated as how three acts are constructed. Being an editor first, that doesn’t mean I don’t also write. It also doesn’t mean that…Read More