17: Jennia D’Lima on Bringing Your Writing To Life through Emotion, Dialogue, and Voice

Jennia D'Lima is a developmental and line editor and writing coach. She provides professional, personalized, and in-depth editing services for fiction and non-fiction, from middle grade to adult. She also hosts the Writing & Editing podcast. In this conversation, we talk about the different types of editing you need for your manuscript, developing your voice as a writer, killer dialogue, helping your reader feel the emotion of a scene, the importance of categorizing your book under the right sub-genre, and much more. 

Jennia D'Lima: https://jenniaedits.com/
Writing & Editing podcast with Jennia D'Lima: https://writingediting.buzzsprout.com/

 

This episode is sponsored in part by a grant from the Maryland State Arts Council. 

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Also mentioned in this episode: 

1. "The Artist's Way" by Julia Cameron
2. K-lytics newsletter (literary sub-genre listings)
3. Editorial Freelancers Association (EFA) Directory
4. Maryland Writers' Association - Writers' Resources - Proofreading & Editing
5. "Beloved" by Toni Morrison 

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This show is hosted by Tiffany Aurora: https://tiffanyaurora.com 

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