The Craft of Plot (Coursera) Week Four Assignment
The final week of The Craft of Plot was all about the editing and revision process (my favourite subject strangely enough). I'm not going to detail this week's lesson...
A surprise package from Greece
I received a lovely surprise in the post the other day (which I'm a little late blogging about owing to the fact I'm up to my ears in editing and doing two Coursera...
The Craft of Plot (Coursera) Week Three Assignment
Week three has certainly kept me out of mischief, I have a terrible habit of making short stories too 'big' for the word count and think I've done it again, but ho hum....
The Craft of Plot (Coursera) Week Two Assignment
Week two was all about story structure. It discussed Aristotle's three-act structure (that of a beginning, middle and end) and Horace's five-act structure, which was...
The Craft of Plot (Coursera) : Week one assignment
Week one of Coursera's 'The Craft of Plot' discussed the differences between story and plot, the structure of plot (exposition through to denouement) and then turned...
Coursera: The Craft of Plot
Despite being super busy with all my editing, I have decided to revisit the basics and signed up to Coursera's 'The Craft of Plot,' which is a four-week course being...
CE1: Introduction to Copy-editing (SfEP course) completed
I chose to take the Society for Editors and Proofreader's introductory course to copy-editing (while completely bypassing the proofreading course they recommend you...
Introducing our Junior Editor… AKA my son
I was talking to an author recently in need of some young eyes on her children's book, and being the mother of two avid readers, offered the services of my sons. It's...
How exciting – A letter from America…
Yes, that's right, I got a letter from America, well, technically, it was a package - a book to be precise - but not just any book - Oh, no. This is a book I helped...
Emotion Amplifiers
Anyone I edit for will have heard me wittering on about a book called the [amazon_textlink asin='0999296310' text='Emotion Thesaurus' template='ProductLink'...
The ‘something new’ is going well
My new way of working - on paper - is producing some great results, so much so that's I've stocked up on black printer ink and A4 white paper. I've also thrown...
BA (Hons) English Literature
I am thrilled - no, ecstatic - no, amazed, that after six years of study with the Open University I have been awarded a 2:1 Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in English...