Killing Off Your Lovelies

I’ve been finishing rewrites to my manuscript per my editor’s suggestion. Over the years since the first draft, I’ve had to learn to kill my lovelies. Scenes written from the POV of secondary characters. Scenes evolving around secondary characters and lots and lots of...

Edison’s Reminder to Never Give Up

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”   ~Thomas A. Edison   Thomas Edison knew this truth more than most of us. He had hundreds of failures before he successfully invented...