Meet the Staff: Junior Editor, Gabrielle Upshur
The Rules of the Game: Introduce yourself, providing a little background on your role at REUTS and any other important tidbits.
I kind of liked when Ashley called y’all REUTies, so I’m going to do that! Hi REUTies 🙂 I’m Gabrielle, an editor at REUTs. That means I get to read…
Meet The Staff: Founder, Creative Director Ashley Ruggirello
The Rules of the Game:
Introduce yourself, providing a little background on your role at REUTS and any other important tidbits.
Post a photo of yourself.
Post eleven random facts about yourself.
Answer the questions given to you by the tagger’s post.
Create 11 new questions and tag someone to answer them.
Got it? Good,…
Meet the Staff: Senior Editor Kisa Whipkey
Last week, I was tagged on my personal blog (Nightwolf’s Corner) by Andrew Toynbee (author of A Construct of Angels) in one of those interview games that introduces readers to the person behind the words. And I realized that the ladies of REUTS Publications have never been properly introduced…
What Editors Look For: Character Development
What Editors Look for: Character Progression
Do you want to be the exact same person at the end of your life as you were at the beginning? Do you want everyone you know to stay exactly as they are and never change? No? I should hope not. People should change…
What Editors Look For: Mechanics
If you know what someone wants, it becomes that much easier to give it to her. Outside of genre and word length preferences, editors look for some basic things in a manuscript that’s been submitted to them. One of those things is good grammar and spelling.
Never underestimate the power…
Divorce Your Words; Save Your Story
Revision. For many writers, I may as well have said Root Canal. They dread it like they do a jury duty summons. They know it’s necessary but hate every second of it.
I’m not one of those writers. Revision is actually my favorite part. There’s something so satisfying in tearing…