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Manuscript Development: Part 5 - How Do I Know ...

Lisa Clifford

Nov 10 - Written By Laurel Cohn, Developmental Book Editor This is our final look through developmental book editor and guest blogger Laurel Cohn’s lens into how to navigate your next draft process...

Manuscript Development: Part 5 - How Do I Know ...

Lisa Clifford

Nov 10 - Written By Laurel Cohn, Developmental Book Editor This is our final look through developmental book editor and guest blogger Laurel Cohn’s lens into how to navigate your next draft process...

Manuscript Development: Part 4 - Surviving Reje...

Lisa Clifford

Nov 3 - Written By Laurel Cohn, Developmental Book Editor We are so lucky to have developmental book editor and guest blogger Laurel Cohn help us navigate what often happens when writers finish...

Manuscript Development: Part 4 - Surviving Reje...

Lisa Clifford

Nov 3 - Written By Laurel Cohn, Developmental Book Editor We are so lucky to have developmental book editor and guest blogger Laurel Cohn help us navigate what often happens when writers finish...

Manuscript Development: Part 3 - Recharging the...

Lisa Clifford

Oct 27 - Written By Laurel Cohn, Developmental Book Editor Yay! You’re finished! You’ve typed the full stop, period, The End after the final sentence of your manuscript. At the end of each...

Manuscript Development: Part 3 - Recharging the...

Lisa Clifford

Oct 27 - Written By Laurel Cohn, Developmental Book Editor Yay! You’re finished! You’ve typed the full stop, period, The End after the final sentence of your manuscript. At the end of each...

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...