Elizabeth Spann Craig
Bestselling Cozy Mystery Author
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethspanncraig.com Self-editing can’t replace professional editing, but it can make your manuscript stronger before it reaches your editor. Also, the less time your editor spends with your manuscript, the [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethspanncraig.com Timeline errors can derail even the best mysteries. When your sleuth interviews a suspect on Tuesday but refers to it happening on Wednesday two chapters later, readers notice. [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig Crutch words are a funny thing. When I first started seriously writing, in the early 2000s, the overused words I leaned on were different from the ones I have [...]
This post is for self-publishing writers (because traditionally published writers get free editing) and writers who might be on the fence about outlining. Here’s my usual caveat: if you’re not outlining, and that’s [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig First drafts are meant to be messy. It’s the time when we hammer out our story, taking it from a concept to something that, at least vaguely, resembles [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig When the ProWritingAid team recently got in touch with me and offered me the chance to check out their editing tool, I was happy to take them up [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig One of my favorite things about self-publishing is the ability to go back into a published book and make changes. There have been, unfortunately, a few things that [...]
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