Are you getting stuck while self-editing? Let me, your friendly neighborhood editor, share the tools, tips and strategies you need to make your text successful!
Do you think the bigger picture of your book needs some work, but you don't really know where to start? My client Keith was in the same boat when he found me. Until he hired me to do an editorial review, that is.As I always try to do, I offered…
There's a saying in the Netherlands: writing is cutting. And in my experience (especially for writers with ADHD), this is absolutely true! Cutting words is one of the essential developmental editing tools and can tighten and strengthen a text tremendously. Though it may feel hard and painful at first to…
The epigraph. It's fun, it's great... It's the wordsmith's illustration. To put a quote before your text (that's what an epigraph is) is to establish authority before you even start writing. It can help to set a mood, to celebrate your favorite author... And it can get you into some…
When you have finished your first draft of your article, book or chapter it is time to do some developmental editing. This means that you will look critically at the structure of your text and see whether improvements can be made to it, before moving on to the line-editing or…
There are so many books for writers out there that it is sometimes hard to know where to start. Luckily, as a writing coach, I'm familiar with many of them. That is why, I thought I'd help you out, by recommending some of my favorite books for (aspiring) writers. I…
Though I take my clients' privacy very seriously, I do get incredibly excited about the projects I work on. So in this Stories from the Inbox series, I will tell you a little bit about the amazing projects that cross my desk. This time: the memoir I call "the black…
This story is so personal, how can you trust anyone else with it? And how can anyone else possibly make your personal story better? Why would you even need memoir editing at all? I'll tell you all about that later, but first, let's talk about what memoir actually is.
Though I take my clients' privacy very seriously, I do get incredibly excited about the projects I work on. So in this Stories from the Inbox series, I tell you a little bit about the amazing projects that cross my desk. This time: the memoir project I will call "the…
My name is Susanne and ever since I taught myself to read at age 4 I have had a passion for the written word. Over the last five years, I have developed a set of systems to help myself and others be productive and make work of our writing passion. Whether it’s fiction or non-fiction, I’m here to help! Check out the about me page to read more.