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Gems: Editing That Diamond. From Rough Draft to Polished Manuscript. Part II

writerpatty | June 22, 2009

In part one of my gems series on editing, we discussed macro edit which can be compare to cleaving, the first process that a diamond goes through after it is mined.  Blocking, faceting and polishing are the…

Gems: The Gold Chain or Prose and Narration

writerpatty | May 15, 2009

goldchainpov1Prose and narration are the keys to holding a story together. In my own writing, this is where I really had to study. Prose is the ordinary everyday written language that we use in fiction to describe what is going