CHARACTER ARCS: WHAT THEY ARE AND HOW TO MAP THEM TO A PLOT. PART 2.
Milestones and impact A character’s personality can have a huge impact on they way they traverse their arc in a story, as much as the way...
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- Feb 26
- 4 min
THE EDITING PROCESS: PROOFREADING
For me, the proofreading stage is the easiest and most enjoyable stage of editing a book. I love digging through the pile of words to...
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eemontgomery11
- Jan 14
- 4 min
THE COPY EDITING PROCESS
We’ve just completed a major structural edit and a continuity edit on a novel. By now, all the action and character development in your...
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eemontgomery11
- Nov 19, 2022
- 2 min
Step-by-step guide to a major structural edit. Step 5: now you can edit, rewrite, write
What’s next in our journey to edit the structure of a novel? To recap: we’ve completed a scene map, mapped the scenes to the story...
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eemontgomery11
- Oct 22, 2022
- 3 min
Structural edit step-by-step guide. Step 3: mapping the scene map and structure to character arcs
At this point in the editing process, I thought I could start working on the MS again. I didn’t. I made myself pause and consider...
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EE Montgomery
- Oct 8, 2022
- 6 min
Step-by-step guide to a major structural edit. Step 2: mapping the scene map to a structure
A step-by-step guide to a major structural edit. Step 2: mapping the scene map to a structure.
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EE Montgomery
- Sep 23, 2022
- 3 min
Step-by-step guide to a major structural edit. Step 1: create a scene map.
A step-by-step guide to a major structural edit. Step 1: create a scene map
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EE Montgomery
- Sep 2, 2022
- 2 min
Editing - just do it
I've been working on the third book on the Dragon Gods series. Opal Tears, and I'm currently deep in a major structural edit.
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EE Montgomery
- Apr 12, 2020
- 2 min
Writing Plans and What I am Reading
My writing plan for 2020 worked really well until about mid-March when Covid-19 became the only topic of conversation with everyone I know.
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EE Montgomery
- Jan 25, 2020
- 1 min
New Ways of Working: 2020 goals
EE Montgomery sets goals for 2020 to deal with the struggles of a work/life balance that leaves time for writing.
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