Author: R. Lennard
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Preparing for the editor
Last blog, I covered Beta Reading. If you missed it, you can check out the blog article here. This one, I want to talk about preparing for your editor. You’ve gone through your edits, sent your manuscript away to your beta readers and adjusted it according to their notes. But how do you know that […]
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Beta Readers
Last blog, I covered editing. This one, I want to talk about Beta Readers. What are they?If you haven’t heard of it before, a beta reader is a very kind person who carves hours of time out to read over the manuscript of a hopeful author. (The author is hoping they haven’t written a bunch […]
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Editing
Last time, I covered world building. If you missed it, you can check out the article here. But now the draft is done, it’s time to move on to editing. Authors have many different ways of editing – and approaching all stages of their manuscripts. Here’s some of the process that I go through in […]
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World Building
Some would say that world building should come before character creation. It’s your book – do it in the order that makes the most sense to you.
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Character creation
Character creation is easy, right? Tall, dark, brooding anti-hero. Or slight, blonde, with an ethereal air about them. But it leaves out the why. Why does tall and dark brood all the time? What give the slight blonde that ethereal air? And my favourite question – why does the villain think what they are doing is the right thing?
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The next steps…
In creating a book. If you missed part one, click here. The next bit is commonly thought of as the hardest part. Actually writing. Putting pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard and watching your thoughts come to life on the page. And searching for that perfect, just right word. Thing is, you can’t edit […]
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Creating a book
The start of a book… I thought I’d share some of the process for the next novel. Cantash, being the fourth in the series, will be different to a stand-alone novel, or the first in a series. This book marks the middle of the series, and there’s a lot of continuation, as well as more […]
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Words and Gaming
Week ten of the Tech Savvy Writer posts. As we come to the end of this series of blog posts, I’ve saved the best to last. Getting words on the page is hard. Creating entire worlds, and people and throwing them into precarious situations so they can grow takes time and skill… and more time. […]
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Helpful tools
Week nine of the Tech Savvy Writer posts. Today, we’re covering miscellaneous helpful tools. There are a few more things I want to cover before you’re released back into the wilds of the internet. Distractions on the internet are very real – social media, gaming and virtual window shopping can eat away at our time, […]
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