drusillas_rain

I'm late to the help_haiti efforts, but my offer post is finally up.

http://bit.ly/6afPcC

I'm offering an in depth critique of either original fiction or fanfiction up to 50k.

The last HP story I worked on was Darkstar by furiosity (which if you haven't read yet was awesome! and you should go read it!). I also critique 4 short stories every month for my critique group. I really enjoy editing, and would love to work with someone on a longer piece.

Do you like tentacles? What about things that come in little pots? How about potted tentacles?

Erika Moen has been making them, and they've been selling out super fast. She's now taking pre-orders here.

One of the publishing blogs I read had a really interesting post about "overwriting" - the tendency to string together as many adjectives, adverbs, and "replacement" nouns as possible, among other things.

The blogger is an editor, so the post is written from their perspective of having to edit a promising manuscript, and shares tips on how to identify if you're an overwriter, as well as a list of words that scream out "overwriter".

http://editorialass.blogspot.com/2009/01/overwriters-anonymous.html


One of the bad words on the list is "sudden (suddenly)" and I know I succumb to that one. I think I need to find some resources on how to deal with that better...