ANNOUNCEMENT: This Developmental Editor Has Moved to a New Website!

Hello everyone!

I’ve been working on a new website, and now that it’s finished, I’m excited to share it with you. I feel like I’ve cleaned and primped it like a new home and I’m ready to welcome you there.

You’ll find more information about the developmental editing process, an easy view of my services, and more about me (and even the answer to that long mystery of “What the heck is an Apoidea?”). I hope it will all be useful to you!

My website URL is still the same, but redirects you here:

www.apoideaeditorial.com

My blog is attached to the site where you can grab my RSS or add yourself to my mailing list to receive every new blog post here:

www.apoideaeditorial.com/blog

I know it’s not as simple as following through the WordPress reader, but it’s still convenient to stay in touch with the RSS function and mailing list option. I will continue blogging about all the good stuff pertaining to fiction writing, story development, and book editing.

I hope to see you there!

An Easy Way to Organize Your Scenes Without Scrolling Back and Forth in Your Manuscript

There’s nothing more overwhelming than sitting down to a messy draft and preparing yourself for revision. You know there are problems, you may even know what to fix, but then all that text seems like a storm of activity ready to confuse and drown you. Are you ready for an easy way to organize your scenes?

Story Openings: Should We Start With Showing or Telling?

How do we start a story that’s been consuming us for weeks, maybe even months? Do we begin describing some backstory to give readers immediate context or do we throw readers directly in the middle of an action-packed moment?

On Writing: Showing vs. Telling and Why Writers Need Both

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard the mantra “show, don’t tell” and I always want to shake my fist and say “not always.”