Author Archive: Susan K Hamilton
Take a Little Off the Top: Seven Tips to Help You Self-Edit Your Novel Manuscript
By Susan K. Hamilton There’s no feeling quite like completing the first draft of your manuscript. There is an immense feeling of satisfaction, even of triumph. That giddiness, however, can quickly be subsumed by the dawning realization of what’s on the horizon: editing. Editing can be a daunting prospect, but it is one hundred percent […]
Writing the “S Word”: Navigating Sex In Your Story
“I read your book. … After I read the sex scene, I had to go to confession.” That is what one of my college friends told me when he called our house to talk to my husband. Part of me was extremely happy about that, and part of me paused, realizing that friends and family […]
How To Handle Being Hit With Deconstructive Criticism
The Wrecking Ball How to handle being hit with deconstructive criticism By Susan K. Hamilton I jumped onto my Twitter feed recently and a Tweet slapped me in the face. It was from a woman—an aspiring writer—who tweeted that she felt “so broken” because her father had just told her to give up writing, that […]
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