by Michelle | Feb 13, 2016 | Blog, Coursera, Studying, The Craft of Plot, Writing Assignments
Week one of Coursera’s ‘The Craft of Plot’ discussed the differences between story and plot, the structure of plot (exposition through to denouement) and then turned its attention to the Rising Action that is oh so important in preventing your...
by Michelle | Feb 9, 2016 | Blog, Studying
Despite being super busy with all my editing, I have decided to revisit the basics and signed up to Coursera’s ‘The Craft of Plot,’ which is a four-week course being taught by Brando Skyhorse, a creative writing professor at Wesleyan University. The...
by Michelle | Dec 31, 2015 | Achievements
[divider]This is an indirect achievement, the full credit remains with the author, R.R.Virdi, for the marvellous story, but I did play a small role in tidying up the text and believe it is worthy of a shout out. Grave Beginnings won this award for offering an...
by Michelle | Dec 21, 2015 | Achievements, Blog
I chose to take the Society for Editors and Proofreader’s introductory course to copy-editing (while completely bypassing the proofreading course they recommend you start with) and I’m pleased to show off my certificate for doing so. I’m not sure yet...
by Michelle | Dec 12, 2015 | Blog, Junior Editor
I was talking to an author recently in need of some young eyes on her children’s book, and being the mother of two avid readers, offered the services of my sons. It’s doubtful my eldest will read it mind you, despite being a high-level reader, he’s...
by Michelle | Dec 7, 2015 | Articles
Utopian Society A Utopia is a perfect, idealistic society, the opposition to a dystopian environment. A world where ‘inhabitants exist under seemingly perfect conditions […] utopian and utopianism are words used to denote visionary reform that tends to be...
by C.R.Michaels | Dec 1, 2015 | Uncategorised
Although I completed my NaNoWriMo challenge on day fourteen with 51,056 words, I found I couldn’t just stop writing, even though I had other things to be getting on with. So I didn’t stop. I kept writing, deciding that while I was in the mood it would be a...
by Michelle | Nov 24, 2015 | Blog, Marketing
This is one of those posts where I witter on about my favourite subject – stats. I love them. Can’t get enough of them. So imagine my excitement last night when I clicked on a teensy weensy arrow in my Amazon affiliate area and it told me just how many...
by Michelle | Nov 22, 2015 | Blog, Testimonials
Yes, that’s right, I got a letter from America, well, technically, it was a package – a book to be precise – but not just any book – Oh, no. This is a book I helped edit. I ‘met’ the author, R.R.Virdi, in a Facebook writing group...
by Michelle | Nov 19, 2015 | Blog
Anyone I edit for will have heard me wittering on about a book called the Emotion Thesaurus (and if you haven’t you will – trust me on that). In my opinion this book is a must have for any writer of fiction. Once upon a time my characters went a little...
