on Writer Unboxed: I have just finished a concision edit on my work-in-progress that I didn’t exactly aim to do. Mainly, because I’d already done one. After my last full read, I’d finally captured the full emotional thrust of the story I’d always been going for. The cause-and-effect trajectory was all there, the turning points […]

5 Random Ways to Trim Your Manuscript – by Kathryn Craft … — Chris The Story Reading Ape’s Blog

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on The Write Life: Writers rarely spit out their best copy on the first draft. If you meet a writer who claims to have the secret for doing so, please let the rest of us know! First drafts — and second drafts and sometimes thirds — exist to hash your ideas out on paper. After […]

25 Editing Tips for Tightening Your Copy (Plus an Editing Checklist) – by Alexis Grant… — Chris The Story Reading Ape’s Blog

Editing can be a minefield, can’t it? I wasn’t sure whether to write this post, initially, but after recent experiences, I thought, why not air my views, after all, they are only my thoughts, and not law, after all! Over the last few years, as I have been, (and continue to), hone my writing craft, […]

The Importance Of Being Edited — Ritu Bhathal

Since the sudden passing of my father, I’ve been thinking a lot about digital assets and what becomes of them. UK firm I Will Solicitors has produced an interesting infographic about this very topic. I’m sharing here in case others are wondering about the same thing. Turns about that our digital assets have significant value […]

Your Digital Assets — Nicholas C. Rossis

My Life is a Lie With such a maze out there, we can never tell what we should or should not do until we attract someone’s wrath.  I’m here to give you a few tips to navigate this maze with the least amount of stress. You see what worked for that author?  Don’t expect it […]

7 Tips to Following the ‘Rules’ of Writing — Legends of Windemere

I recently came across Picture Colorizer; a free online tool that lets you produce stunning color pictures out of your old black-and-white photos. I used it with some old photos from my personal album and was amazed by the result. For example, this is a 1970 photo of my mother holding me: The same photo […]

Picture Colorizer: Free Photo Editing Tool — Nicholas C. Rossis

on Jane Friedman: Under the current Copyright Act of 1976 and its subsequent amendments, your creative works are protected by US copyright law as soon as they are put in a tangible medium, so long as they meet all the other elements required for copyright protection (i.e., they must also be original and must contain […]

Why Waiting Too Long to Register Your Copyright Is a Big Mistake – by Liani Kotcher… — Chris The Story Reading Ape’s Blog

on CMOS Shop Talk: I gave Detective MacSwain $200 and a diamond ring worth $1,000 to keep quiet and make it look like suicide. (Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest, 81) “That’s nice,” the gray-mustached sleuth on my left said. He didn’t sound sincere. . . . The gray-mustached detective who had sat beside me in the car carried […]

Who Gets Capitalized in a Novel? – by Carol Saller… — Chris The Story Reading Ape’s Blog

on Social Media Just for Writers: Do you struggle with coming up with blogging topics? Hey, I wouldn’t be honest if I said that blogging is such a breeze, I could do it in my sleep. Or when I’m sleep-deprived. There are times when blogging topics come to me in bunches. I could be sitting […]

50 Blogging Topics for Authors – by Frances Caballo… — Chris The Story Reading Ape’s Blog