Livvy Skelton-Price

We all need a bit of help Photo from Wix. 1) A woman walks into a bar, sees her friends at a table, all laughing. Why was she not invited? 2) A man wakes up in a grave. 3) Children laughing, seasaws seasawing, but no children in sight. 4) A thruple starts having trouble. 5) A dragon flies into a city and starts destroying it. 6) An apartment gets broken into. But there's no sign of a break in. 7) A deadly disease spreads across the planet, but only a certain group of people are immune. 8)...

A woman with writer's block. Photo from Wix. Writer's Block is a controversial topic. Some are debilitated by it, others say it doesn't exist. I sit in the middle. I think it does exist and you can absolutely work through it. First, we must understand it. Just like with any activity, if you do it for too long you'll get fatigued. If you run, you go for a certain amount of time and then you catch your breath. Runners Block. You may not want to run the next day. Extended Runners Block. Or......

Image from Wix Editing is what writing is.  We all know the saying “Writing is Re-writing.” Anyone who writes for an audience knows most of the work happens after the first draft. And if you’re an editor, you know that all too well.  There are a lot of questions around editing. How to do it? What should the writer focus on? How many times do they need to rewrite their work until it’s perfection? I’m now on my 2nd draft of my 2nd novel — the sequel to my recent release, What’s Left. A literary...