Author: R. Lennard
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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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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 […]