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Aug 18, 20212 min read
Another Angle | House Blog
My writing group has a game that we like to play: we all write down a location and three professions, then put them in a hat (well, two...
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Jul 18, 20213 min read
3 Things Your Editor Wants You to Stop Doing | House Blog
[Full disclosure – that title was written to be clickbait. It's more like: 3 Common Errors That Slow Down Editors, but that didn't have...
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Jun 18, 20213 min read
Rewrite This Story | House Blog
[For anyone who's not an absolute theatre nerd, this tile is a reference to a song in the TV series Smash, Season 2 – which I liked a lot...
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May 18, 20212 min read
Leaving Breadcrumbs | House Blog
Last month I talked about barrelling through difficult parts of writing, even though you know you'll need to change it later, in order to...
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Apr 18, 20212 min read
“Fix it in Post” | House Blog
If you don't know what this phrase means, it's something commonly said by filmmakers who know that there's something not quite right with...
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Mar 18, 20212 min read
Rejection, Actually | House Blog
February was a bit rough. I received 4 rejections in one month, which is a lot considering I only submitted 4 stories so far this year....
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Feb 18, 20213 min read
How Many Spreadsheets is Too Many? | House Blog
Sometimes I get caught up in the minutiae… To be fair, one of my strengths as an editor is that I’m good at finding continuity errors, so...
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Nov 18, 20202 min read
"Add a Catchy Title"
This is the instruction the title box gives me when I start a new post, but it also got me thinking about story titles. In my experience,...
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