#Rewriting

One of the most valuable lessons I learned about meeting the word count is that sometimes it’s better to recraft entire paragraphs rather than to search for easy words that

Monica Beletsky

If you're #rewriting & lose steam in scene work, you can focus on big picture restructuring. Then dive into scenes when you have energy & focus for emotional beats, description

People have been talking about Queen's Gambit a lot this past month, so I thought I'd share the story of the first time I got a call from Scott Frank.

Liberal with Edelgard tendencies 🦅🖤

Yo, is it really that hard to not tag Edelgard in fics if you are gonna hate on her or destroy her character arc? People who look up her name

The train crash we are observing in the US is due to the fact that we are governed by lawyers and journalists and politicians, people who specialize in political rather

I've said this before, but it bears repeating. All the news of the ££££££ deals coming out of Frankfurt especially for debut authors, can feel very disheartening and demoralising for

W I L L B R O O K E R

The stages of writing / rewriting an academic book / chapter / article in my experience (from a current position within that process) 1. Delay. There is always more to

Matthew Garrett

Yeah if only all that awful COBOL code had been rewritten in a nice modern language like ADA we wouldn't have these problems Rewriting code that's fit for purpose would

bryanedwardhill

I've got to head back into the Hill-Cave to finish up this screenplay, but I wanted to mention something called a "character pass" (at least that's what I call it)

#BLM | Señorish

I've seen so many P5 fans talk way more about how much they hate the way Atlus writes characters and stories and how they hate half the PT and it

typewriteralley

So the clock is ticking on a political timebomb in Seattle and I can't stop thinking about it. I gotta do a thread about the redistricting process that's happening before

Anne Tibbets *PreOrder SCREAMS FROM THE VOID*

Here are a few things I would like writers to consider before attempting an R&R request by an agent or an editor: (What's an R&R? A revise and resubmit request-

The idea in occult and Freudian theories that ppl with vaginas are empty and looking to be filled by a penis is very wrong. In fact, it is men who

Amanda Marcotte

One thing I’m noticing that a lot of people, especially on the right, are forgetting about the Kavanaugh hearings was that it wasn’t just that Blasey Ford seemed credible. It’s

On this blog edit story, let’s be clear what Cummings is trying to do: distance himself from the herd immunity plan.The claim that he was specifically and explicitly warning about

CW: mental healthIs anyone else familiar with an anxious correctness in saying things online? It's gotten so bad for me lately, I'm deleting or rewriting tweets based on the slightest