So you’ve managed to finish your manuscript. You’ve read and reread it fixing everything that is wrong with it. Now what? Now would be a great time to back it up somewhere off your computer. Better yet, back it up to several somewheres. I can’t think of anything worse than to have your work finished only to watch it go away in a puff of smoke (maybe literally) if something goes wrong with your computer. You have several choices, not the least of which is to print out a hard copy of the work. There are also USB flash drives available for little money, online backups through services like Google docs or Symantec backup and you can burn the story […]

Happy Canada Day to all my fellow Canadians and Happy Pre-4th-of-July to my American friends. For the rest of you, Happy Summer! The weather here is fantastic! Well, it’s day four of my two week holiday and so far the break has been an editing success; I’ve managed just shy of 45,000 words worth of editing so far. Only 35,000 to go. To put that into perspective, I’ve been editing the story since the end of April and I was only 10K into it when we left. So why the big progress? Well, it doesn’t hurt that my wife loves driving. My job is to navigate so there are usually a lot of miles to review the written word between […]