Writing Lifestyle
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The Glory of the Beta-Reader
First of all, what is a beta-reader? Only this – someone that you allow to read your work before you send it out into the world. You should make at least one pass looking for typos and blatant inconsistencies. You might want to get it to the point of what you think is the final draft. I suggest that with longer works, you only do minimal clean-up. Take care of plot holes you find yourself on your own first read, and then send it on. Why? You don’t want to spend a huge amount of time editing and making language flow and brainstorming perfect metaphors, just to find out that…
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Six Ways to Prioritize and Find Time to Write
Time is the world’s most finite resource. Nobody’s making any more of it. I struggle with time, always finding there is never enough of it. If you want to write, you need to make writing a priority and you need to allocate time for it. There are, however, limited things that you can do because nobody has yet figured out how to stretch time. I dream of an app that will stop time so that I can get everything done, alas, to no avail. So I have provided you with seven ways to find time to write. Find Time to Write by Getting Up Early If you’re naturally an early…
