in June of 2022 Charles and I completed our work on the “rough and messy draft”. it was a drum roll moment when I clicked on the “send” button which sent the manuscript for developmental editing. I sent over 100,000 words to Kate my editor. Her...
Whew! I made it through the rough and messy draft. Thanks to Charles I had a revision I could assign to chapters in my Scrivener outline. I used general terms for chapter names. Terms which were indicative of the subject covered in each section. I found this part of...
Once I organized and implemented the tools I needed to begin I embarked on a fast track to the rough draft. One thing I learned for sure and embraced was to just write and not edit. Write, without correcting, without worrying about grammar etc. Using my index...
What a week it was. An abundance of information and excitement. I could not believe I was finally going to write my book-my memoir. The presenters, Reid Tracy and Kelly Notaras, lavished the participants with a plethora of insights, data, sources, and of course...
“You should write a book”. Maura said after hearing my answers to her questions. They were simple, typical questions we all ask. “How old were you when you came to the United States. Did you speak English? How come your sister is in Greece?” I had heard the same...
