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Manuscript Development: Part 2 - Managing Feedback

Lisa Clifford

Oct 20  - Written By Laurel Cohn, Developmental Book Editor So, you’ve written your manuscript – yay! That is fabulous! Really, you have achieved something marvellous. You should feel enormously proud of...

Manuscript Development: Part 2 - Managing Feedback

Lisa Clifford

Oct 20  - Written By Laurel Cohn, Developmental Book Editor So, you’ve written your manuscript – yay! That is fabulous! Really, you have achieved something marvellous. You should feel enormously proud of...

Manuscript Development: Part 1 - Building Resil...

Lisa Clifford

Oct 13 - Written By Laurel Cohn, Developmental Book Editor It’s an enormous pleasure to introduce a series of blogs by the fabulous developmental book editor, Laurel Cohn. Creative writing Art of Writing...

Manuscript Development: Part 1 - Building Resil...

Lisa Clifford

Oct 13 - Written By Laurel Cohn, Developmental Book Editor It’s an enormous pleasure to introduce a series of blogs by the fabulous developmental book editor, Laurel Cohn. Creative writing Art of Writing...

My Four Big D’s - Part 4: Disenchantment

Lisa Clifford

Oct 6 - Written By Lisa Clifford - Author/Journalist Disenchantment is the third final D in my four big writing D’s series. We’ve covered Distraction, Derailment, Digression, and today, Disenchantment. Being big on...

My Four Big D’s - Part 4: Disenchantment

Lisa Clifford

Oct 6 - Written By Lisa Clifford - Author/Journalist Disenchantment is the third final D in my four big writing D’s series. We’ve covered Distraction, Derailment, Digression, and today, Disenchantment. Being big on...

My Four Big D’s - Part 3: Digression

Lisa Clifford

Sep 29 - Written By Lisa Clifford - Author/Journalist Digression is the third D of my big Four D’s in this writing series. We’ve covered Distraction, Derailment, and today, Digression. The internet says...

My Four Big D’s - Part 3: Digression

Lisa Clifford

Sep 29 - Written By Lisa Clifford - Author/Journalist Digression is the third D of my big Four D’s in this writing series. We’ve covered Distraction, Derailment, and today, Digression. The internet says...

My Four Big D’s - Part 2: Derailed

Lisa Clifford

Sep 22 - Written By Lisa Clifford - Author/Journalist To be ridiculously frank, without a doubt, my greatest writing derailer is alcohol. Drinking is the biggest time thief, con artist, deceitful, belligerent bastard...

My Four Big D’s - Part 2: Derailed

Lisa Clifford

Sep 22 - Written By Lisa Clifford - Author/Journalist To be ridiculously frank, without a doubt, my greatest writing derailer is alcohol. Drinking is the biggest time thief, con artist, deceitful, belligerent bastard...

My Four Big D’s - Part 1: Distraction

Lisa Clifford

Sep 15 - Written By Lisa Clifford - Author/Journalist The August high summer holidays are well and truly over in Italy now. The national vacation month when few, if anyone, is working. No...

My Four Big D’s - Part 1: Distraction

Lisa Clifford

Sep 15 - Written By Lisa Clifford - Author/Journalist The August high summer holidays are well and truly over in Italy now. The national vacation month when few, if anyone, is working. No...