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Hello, DA: I'll be celebrating my tenth year as a professional editor soon. In this time, I've been fortunate to edit some rather lucrative commercial successes and some rather unnoticed niche novels--and a good deal of slush, slop and riot in between. I'm at a point in my career where I can pick and choose clients, pick and choose genres and form, and generally revel in the luxury of saying "No" whenever I want. It's a rather spoiled place, I won't lie, and I do enjoy it. More: I earned it. The other day, I was speaking with a potential client, someone I've rejected a time or two before whom I didn't fancy working with this time 'round, an

In an attempt to provide the DeviantArt writing community with useful information, advise, and tools, we here at NaNoPlotMo (https://www.deviantart.com/nanoplotmo) have decided to begin what will be an ongoing series of featured resources from around DA and the internet at large. We may even suggest actual, physical books! :faint: To kick things off, I'd like to recommend an article and podcast from theminimalists.com titled 11 Ways to Write Better. It's short and sweet, and I've found all eleven suggestions to be incredible useful from personal experience. They are: Treat text messages like prose. Words are tools. Expand your vocabulary to make your writing more precise. Do i

A lot of people complain about the lack of features deviantART provides for writers, or about various other aspects of using deviantART's writing system. Most of these complaints are entirely justified, because while deviantART's writing system is based on HTML, it lacks a lot of features present in HTML and otherwise that writers would find desirable, had they access to them. Luckily, they do: deviantART accepts PDF uploads in the same fashion as it does image uploads via sta.sh, which means that any writer willing to take a few extra steps to work with PDFs can enjoy features that deviantART normally lacks, including: Justified text. Justi

Following the Flash Fiction Competition of June 2015, I was asked to create an article about some of my personal favourite entries from the contest, and what made them work. Well, I've taken that, and turned it into an article on the top tips of writing Flash Fiction. These are just my thoughts, and tips I've picked up from Writer's Workshop and Advanced Writing classes. Now, with out further ado, Tip #1: Start your story in Action With Flash Fiction being such a short medium, you don't have much time to establish setting or characters; it needs to be fast-paced for maximum impact. So, the best way to engage your reader is to drop them str

Space Art week One of the most common complaints about space art is that it lacks originality. In this article I want to explore the limitations of this complaint. First we will give it its due, then we will show how that complaint simply reflects a lack of vision. Along the way, we will see how innovation has actually occurred among space artists here on DeviantArt. Classic Space Art and Originality When thinking of space art and its lack of originality, a few scenes come to mind. These scenes are often imitated and repeated in a fashion that gives rise to the sense of unoriginality. This suggests that these scenes have been established for

Yes You Can! Helpful Hints On Reading and Discussing Poetry :points: Contest Information Below! :points: Hi! Welcome to projecteducate (https://www.deviantart.com/projecteducate)’s week on poetry forms. I’m here to talk about poetry in more general terms, which might help you with the rest of the week. As a great lover of poetry, it makes me incredibly sad when I see a comment on dA that says I just don’t get poetry or I like this poem, but I don’t know why or I can’t possibly say anything about this poem, it’s just so much better than I could do If you can see yourself in any of those comments, this article is for you! By the end of it