Some explicit language is included in this episode.
Disclaimers:
I am now offering LINE EDITING services, not developmental editing services. I don't know why my brain ceases to function when I hit record!
Also, because I am rambling a bit in this episode I want to clear up a couple of things that may be unclear:
1) When speaking about social media followers: I think it is important, as writers, for us to build and be a part of a strong and supportive writing community. I love the writing community on Twitter because there are so many wonderfully supportive members who strive to help other writers. On both Twitter and Instagram I follow back writers/authors who follow me. However, I do unfollow those writers who unfollow me. Mostly because we were only connected due to a mutual follow back. I'm not on social media to up my numbers, and I'm certainly not there to up anyone else's. I have 1700 followers on Twitter and most of them are writers. I am so grateful to be connected with every single one.
2) I do not mean to accuse the unnamed writer of plagiarism. What I meant to say is there are a number of coincidences that seem uncanny. That being said, I think if there was any sort of borrowing from the smaller author it was unintentional. Perhaps the bigger author read the "smaller" author's book because it was the same subject matter and some of those details subconsciously made it into the bigger author's book. As a side note: I think it sucks that the earlier published author is being overshadowed.
3) When I mention the editor not stopping the repetition in the book I recently started reading, I meant pointing it out and suggesting heavily that the author remove it. Seriously, repetition of this type slows your narrative down and should be avoided. Literary and upmarket writers (hand raised) often use repetition as a stylistic choice, but it isn't to remind the reader how many years (35 times in 10 pages!) the MC has been away from home.
Episode 22: Pitching in the Time of Corona
Episode 21: Writing For Posterity
Episode 20: Notes on a Scandal - My Review of Excavation & My Dark Vanessa
Episode 19: Social Distancing and My FULL REQUEST!
Episode 18 - Impostor Syndrome is Real, Y'all.
Episode 17: The Year of Submissions
Episode 16: Query Updates & 2020 Goals
Episode 15: Fear of Finishing
Episode 14: Why Your Friends and Family Don't Have to Read Your Work
Episode 13: Corrections, Editing Updates, and Critique Tips
Episode 12: Conducting Effective Research
Episode 11: Revisions, Announcement, & the State of the Publishing Industry
Episode 10: The Cost of Being A Writer
Episode 8: When Life Gets In the Way
Episode 7: Making Time To Write Is Harder Than You Think
Episode 6: Rejection & Revision
Episode 5: The Push to be a Planner
Episode 4: No more "Aspiring" and other Peeves
Episode 3: Eliminating "Thought" Verbs
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