April 2023 Monthly Recap
In case you missed these posts from April 2023
It’s that time again! Time for a monthly recap of all the posts I shared during April.
It was a quieter month thanks to my ongoing GI issues + note one, but TWO deadlines…But thanks for reading and subscribing! I’ll be back with more in May!
Part 2 of Revising Screechers: Changing Tenses
First off, if you’ve not yet watched the video or seen my past round of edits, you can do that here: Screechers Discussion & Thoughts Video link Part 1 And be sure to check the comments, where I answer some of YOUR questions about my process.
Procrastination or burnout?
Procrastination? Or burnout? This is a questions I think a lot of us need to answer. Not merely in our writing lives, but in our overall life-lives. Because we’re all suffering from that nasty voice that tells us to get off the couch (or out of bed or off TikTok or whatever we’re doing that isn’t the “work”) because supposedly we’re procrastinating.
Swag, Travel, Social Media, and Writing
Latest News from the Desk of Sooz Writing Prompts For the DenNerds: Updates on The Hunting Moon and beyond! For the Daydreamers: Swag, Travel, Social Media, and Writing Upcoming Events 1. Latest News from the Desk of Sooz As you all know from past newsletters, I’ve been jumping from one personal crisis to the next. After my last newsletter, Cricket got so sick…she stopped breathing. Turns out she has developed asthma!
Tightening Your Prose: Part 1
@Katie Higgins asked: Hi Sooz! I'd love to know if you have any tips on making significant cuts? I'm working on a draft to query and as a YA fantasy I need to get it under 100k and it's currently sitting at 110k (at draft 3). Is there anything you ask yourself when trying to cut/combine? 10k to cut sometimes seems like not that much, and then other times it seems impossible!
Tightening Your Prose: Part 2
I am back this week to pick up where I left off in the last newsletter about Tightening Your Prose. I talked about eliminating redundancies and closing your scene “circles” in that post, and today we’ll wrap up with a focus on two things: Filler actions.
Keeping Track of Subplots
1. Latest News from the Desk of Sooz My longtime friend Erin Bowman (who has an excellent Substack for writers!) just visited, and it was so lovely to see her. We worked, we “played,” and we used each other’s writer brains to talk out story ideas and discuss our futures in this unstable industry.
Just wanted to say thank you for all you do. Your posts are so incredibly wise and helpful.