Writing a book is like baking a cake. You mix the ingredients, - STOP , thats a crap metaphor. It's like anything that needs refining. For me, that would be wood working: measure (yes, twice), cut, cut again, file, sand, throw it away... So, editing and making things out of wood seems like a decent metaphor. Forget the cake thing. I dont follow recipes very well. Here's a brief look at editing. Developmental Editing: The Big Picture Makeover Imagine your manuscript as a house

Finishing my first draft and making a bold writing decision.

Lesson one on improving your medical writing

The importance of getting the medical facts and characters right is because story, be it fiction or fantasy, is about telling the truth.

For being a terrible host and cheekily outwitting death – twice – Sisyphus, an ancient Greek king of Ephyra (later Corinth), was...

Why am I doing this? Why am I doing this to myself? Writing for me is the itch, not that I can't scratch, but the itch I have been...