If I’m honest with myself, I’m not a ghostwriter, I’m a ghost rewriter. As a someone who gets paid to put words in other people’s mouths, I spend a lot of time going back and forth about exactly what those words should be. It involves a lot of revisions as I help the authors I […]
WordCount Repeats: Handle rewrites without wanting to kill yourself or your editor
While I’m away from my keyboard this week, I’m re-running a few posts that didn’t get the attention – or web traffic – they deserved the first time around. I’ll return with fresh insights on the business of writing next week. – Michelle Rafter Rewrites aren’t one of my list of favorite work-related activities. In […]
How to handle rewrites without wanting to kill yourself, or your editor
Rewrites aren’t high on my list of favorite work-related activities. The fact is, I hate them. Especially when an editor sits on something for a couple weeks then ships it back with questions. It makes me want to fire off an email saying “That was so five stories ago!” But rewrites are a fact of […]