Blog - Rebecca T Dickson

9 Ways to Make Your Editor Love You

Let’s make this quick and dirty. The way I like it. 1 – Respect the deadline. You’re busy. Your editor is busy. If you agree on a start date, or a date you’ll be ready for round two of your edits, BE READY. 2 – ‘s is not plural. I’ll say it again another way: […]

On nickel and diming, giving anxiety the finger and WRITING

So yesterday, I announced my editing rates will double on March 1st. Today, we talk about what that means. As your editor, I perform a developmental edit, a copy edit AND a proofread on your manuscript. It’s all included in one package. Don’t know the difference? Go here and read. It’s the same editing process […]

What are you lying to yourself about?

I can’t remember the last time I vacuumed. No, I don’t have a housekeeper. What I have is a dirty house. And an empty refrigerator. And a towering pile of laundry. Because I’ve put everything I have into building this business for more than a year. In December, I drew a line: I said I […]

Why are writers such lazy bums?

by Guy Bergstrom I don’t really think writers are lazy bums. I just want us all to talk about the elephant in the living room. Why does writing TAKE SO LONG? The average person types 50 words per minute. And that’s slow. I type about 80 or 90. Faster if I have coffee. Quicker if […]

Ten years later, it’s the same game for this celiac

Ten years ago, it was okay when no one knew about celiac disease. The medical community labeled it rare. The general populace had never heard of it. People didn’t eat gluten-free. Shit, people didn’t even know what gluten was. I was diagnosed in 2003, after 11 years with mysterious symptoms ranging from radical weight-loss to […]

Writers, we are doing it BACKWARDS

A guest post by Guy Bergstrom Oh, it kills me to say this: we are doing it backwards. Maybe you’re the exception to the rule. Perhaps you’re that rare writer who figured this out 10 years ago. But I doubt it. Most of the writers I know – whether they’re novelists or journalists, speechwriters or […]

Building suspense the WRONG way

Then she said, “But I don’t want to tell the reader the guy’s an ex-con. I want her to figure it out.” “Why?” I said. “Because I want to build suspense.” “But why do you want to hold back that specific piece of information? How does doing that move your story forward? How will the […]

How We Kill The Internal Editor

Give me a month and I’ll give you a writer who knows her worth, writes shit she loves and takes time to consistently improve her craft. It’s called Write Raw and I just dropped the price – as well as the number of clients I work with each month. And soon, it’ll be gone forever. […]

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