September 3-1-1

3 updates, 1 useful tool, 1 impactful image

Hi Readers,

Here’s the September installment of my monthly 3-1-1 series where I share 3 personal/writing updates, 1 useful tool and 1 impactful image.

I’m technically a day late for September, but who cares? Last month was full of novel-progress updates so I didn’t think y’all would mind.

Three Updates

One: I had the novel manuscript printed and bound into books to make editing more fun. Cue the colored pens, highlighters and sticky notes.

I made the right margin huge so that I have a lot of white space to write notes and draft on the side.

In my lawyering days of writing lengthy legal briefs, I found that printing out the drafts and editing by hand spurred a lot of new ideas and helped me focus. Hopefully that is also true of novel-editing.