What comes after the first draft and all the steps you’ve taken in the ensuing months? And, even more importantly, how long before you can publish your book? The good news is that before you even receive the physical proof of your book, in fact, even before the copy edit, you can print up uncorrected… Continue Reading
Once you have final copy, your next steps after the first draft involve having the book’s interior pages laid out. Ideally, you will have approved the page design well before this point, so this publishing piece shouldn’t take more than a couple of weeks at most, assuming the book designer can get you in right… Continue Reading
If you’ve been following this what-to-do-after-the-first-draft series, you’re now quite aware of just how much work is involved. Let’s assume that you’ve finished writing and rewriting all the drafts of your book and have sent them off to the professionals for editing and cover design. Then what? Continue Reading
The what-happens-after-the-first-draft saga continues. Once you’ve rewritten your manuscript, so you’ve shown rather than told, then added detail and honed your language, you could be ready to turn over your manuscript to a professional line editor (unless you want to bring in some beta readers first). The line editor will raise the language by another… Continue Reading
How to revise your first draft doesn’t stop with turning narrative into active passages that allow your reader to experience what’s happening vicariously as discussed in Part 1 of this series. Once you’ve gotten those broad strokes of your revision in hand, including turning informative paragraphs into action scenes packed with dialogue and thoughts, you… Continue Reading
You’ve completed the first draft of your book. Congratulations! Time to celebrate before you get back to work. Work? That’s right. Even though you may be feeling pressed to get your book out, a whole lot more work is required after the first draft. Here’s a look at what lies ahead from now until publication.… Continue Reading
My former writing coach client’s two books weren’t new. Far from it. Dr. Surender R. Neravetla, MD, FACS–director of cardiac surgery at Ohio’s Springfield Regional Medical–published Salt Kills in 2012 and Salt: Black America’s Silent Killer in 2014. During that time, neither had topped the sales charts. Still, knowing how passionate he was about his… Continue Reading
Is this the year you’re going to realize your book-writing dreams and get your book started? Finished? Revised? Published? Let’s make that happen! First, however, you’re going to have to get out of your own way. Since how we undermine ourselves changes depending on the circumstances, let’s figure out how you can claim your book-writing… Continue Reading
Inspiration often comes when we least expect it. So does the validation of one’s assumptions. One of my pet theories is that writers don’t just pop into life fully equipped with the ability to realize their propensity for the written word. I’ve worked with enough would-be–and eventually successful–authors to justify this belief. But it never… Continue Reading
When it comes to plagiarizing, “I didn’t mean to” is not a defense. So you need to make sure you take all precautions in order to avoid unintentionally pilfering somebody else’s verbiage. That’s easier said than done. Continue Reading
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