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It is a beautiful sensation To wake up in the morning With the sound of a beautiful lady That turns your life into joy. It is that sound, That melody in her voice, That brings you peace and love And color the world by being her alive. With an outstanding performance of that beautiful moment, Eddie Brickell sings "Good Times" You don't even have to try It comes easy for you The way you move is so appealing It could make me cry Go out driving with my friends In Bobby's big old beat up car I'm with a lot of people then I wonder where you are Good times, bad times, give me some of that Good times, bad times, give me some of that Good times, bad times, give me some of that I don't want to say goodbye Don't want to walk you to the door I spend a little time with you I want a little more Good times, bad times, give me some of that Good times, bad times, give me some of that Good times, bad times, give me some of that

“Jot, Bin, Pants”: An Outline Method to Get Your Writing Back on Track

One of the biggest struggles of being a writer is often feeling like you’re not good enough, no matter how much you’re writing. Today, writer Cassandra Lee Yieng shares an outlining method that’s helped her move past feelings of doubt and create the stories that she wants to write:

Much has been said about conquering the blank page, be it called writer’s block or imposter syndrome. We’re often inundated with brusque advice like “write an outline”, “fake it till you make it”, and “just write” (Reminds me of that Pirates of the Caribbean scene). It’s easy to presume that the people offering that advice have a tough exterior, and nobody likes being intimidated. To counter that, I’d like to shed light on my writing journey, and how I helped get myself out of a writing funk.

My university major was math, but one of my most devastating writing experiences was a Huffington Post piece on the math of snooker. A simple error—an oversight of a miscalculation—stopped my other submitted posts from being published. I could no longer reach the broad readership I once enjoyed, and I stopped blogging for at least a year.

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Structural Editing

What is a structural editor (SE): A SE will consider your manuscript as a whole and help you work towards improving your novel for the sake of the reader. SE are the connection between what the readers need, what the publisher requires, and what the author hopes for their story. Developmental editing and structural editing often cross into one another and focus on the same goals/objectives.

When to get a SE: This is usually the first stage of editing. They need the full manuscript in order to properly assess your story and all the elements within. If you’ve finished your manuscript, and you find the story still doesn’t seem quite as professional as some published books, this is the place to start.

Benefits of having a SE: SE are amazing at assessing a story as a whole and determining how to shift your story to meet expectation of publishers and readers. They help set you in the right track to get your novel published and share your story with your readers.

What they do for you:

Issues with plot

pacing issues

character, setting or theme issues

writing style issues

organize or reorganize paragraphs and chapters to help make your story comprehensive

considers audience, purpose and medium of publishing to help structure your story better

help you work on premise, point of view, and voice

work through scenes to trim the unnecessary details, and expand on some areas to improve comprehension

work on dialogue

consider the flow of the story

What they won’t do for you:

Grammar, spelling and punctuation.

working line by line to clarify meaning

work in formatting or typesetting for the manuscript

When choosing an editor, be sure to be clear as to what you want from them, and what services they can offer you. No two editors are the same. Some may offer more services while others may specialize in more specific ways. Typically, you can ask for a sample of their work to determine if you will match with your editor, or if they’re not the right fit for you.

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Happy Writing!

The director’s task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts. It is his duty to reveal every iota of the truth he has seen, even if not everyone finds that truth acceptable. Of course an artist can lose his way, but even his mistakes are interesting provided they are sincere. For they represent the reality of his inner life, of the peregrinations and struggle into which the external world has thrown him.

Andrei Tarkovsky

To wait for something seems to be an integral part of the universe and the way it works. It takes 13 nights for the moon to turn full. It took 40 nights for Moses to receive the Torah. It takes 9 long months for a human embryo to evolve & finally take birth into this world. Teach your soul to wait, when there's nothing else to be done. To wait patiently with all the beauty in tact, certain of the promise that when the time finally arrives, the king himself will send for you, just like Joseph, after waiting for several years imprisoned...

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