One ! per 50,000 words. This was the first editing/writing advice I scribbled in the notebook I had started as a dumping ground for my ideas and observations. I checked the ten chapters I had completed by that point to discover they had over 100 exc...
Here are some resources I used (also linked in the in-line comments)
Websites outside of Wattpad
learning2grow.org
A blog with a section specifically for writing that approaches many interesting questions writers come across on their journey. Great place to take the MICE outline from.
writinglikeaboss.com
louiseharnbyproofreader.com
theeditorsblog.net
grammarcheck.net
Here are the books I recommend checking out
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- Stephen King "On Writing"
- Anne Lamott "Bird by Bird"
- Strunk and White "The Elements of Style"
- Browne and King "Self-Editing for Fiction Writers"
- Louise Harnby "Editing Fiction at Sentence Level"
- Noah Lukeman "The First Five Pages"
- Gwen Hayes "Romancing the Beat"
- Jessica Brody "Save the Cat! Writes a Novel"
- Cathy Yardley "Rock Your ..." series (plot, revisions, query, writing every day)
- Ingermanson and Economy "Writing Fiction for Dummies" (Part III: Editing and Polishing Your Story and Characters)
- James Hynes "Writing Great Fiction"
- Jane Friedman "How to Publish Your Book" (her blog is great too)
- K.M. Welland "Creating Character Arcs"
- Puglisi and Ackerman "The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Expression"
- Jennifer Probst "Write Naked"
Wattpad Books
I would also encourage you to check out wattpadwriters.com and participate in contests and challenges that the Wattpad Ambassadors post on their accounts. Practice makes perfect.
I have a reading list on my profile named "On Writing Not by Stephen King" I update every time I find new advice from fellow Wattpad writers
My all-time favorites are:
Writing a Book: Advice from Famous Authors by dlroisette
