Have you ever heard of the Kubler-Ross 5 Stages of Death and Dying? Well, as an editor for many years, I’ve seen a similar phenomenon happen with first-time novelists, especially when I was called upon to stage an intervention. Not pretty. I call this process of extracting a writer from her first bad novel, The 5 stages …
August 19, 2011 archive
International Association of Professional Writers & Editors
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Rise of the Machines—Human Authors in a Digital Age
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