How Long Should a Memoir Be?
How long should a memoir be? The answer is not "as long as it needs to be. "Have a good theme, a defined audience, and a desired effect.
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Trish Lockard
- Dec 12, 2020
- 4 min
Sensitivity Readers: An Editing Specialty Comes of Age
In June 2019, I posted an article to this blog called "Sensitivity Readers Are Not Censors." At that time, controversy was swirling...
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Trish Lockard
- Nov 16, 2019
- 3 min
Personal Essays are Still a Hot Commodity
A personal essay is about a topical subject discussed from a personal perspective, yours or someone else’s.
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Trish Lockard
- Oct 7, 2019
- 3 min
Smart Writers Seek Smart Editors for Their Best Work
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I want to talk about this issue of self-editing and the necessity of hiring a professional...
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Terri Lyon
- Jul 28, 2019
- 3 min
Not a Weekend Project: How to Build an Author Platform, Part 2
Author Terri Lyon focuses on how she evaluates the effectiveness of her author platform to create an audience and generate sales.
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Terri Lyon
- Jul 17, 2019
- 5 min
Not a Weekend Project: How to Build an Author Platform, Part 1
If you self-publish, you won't make many sales without an author platform. If you want a contract with an agent or a publisher, they will...
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Trish Lockard
- Jun 8, 2019
- 4 min
Sensitivity Readers Are Not Censors
Censorship, which takes many forms, means the suppression or prohibition of something. So, let’s be clear, sensitivity readers have no power
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Trish Lockard
- Apr 27, 2019
- 4 min
A Work of Fiction is Not a Fill-in-the-blank Game
I studied journalism and advertising in college. These areas of mass communications, as my major was called, might sound unrelated, even...
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