Susan K Hamilton, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books http://booksbywomen.org/author/susankhamilton/ Thu, 03 Oct 2019 22:14:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Take a Little Off the Top: Seven Tips to Help You Self-Edit Your Novel Manuscript https://booksbywomen.org/take-a-little-off-the-top-seven-tips-to-help-you-self-edit-your-novel-manuscript/ https://booksbywomen.org/take-a-little-off-the-top-seven-tips-to-help-you-self-edit-your-novel-manuscript/#comments Thu, 03 Oct 2019 11:52:13 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=28343 By Susan K. Hamilton There’s no feeling quite like completing the first draft of your manuscript. There is an immense feeling of satisfaction, even of triumph. That giddiness, however, can quickly be subsumed by the dawning realization of what’s on the horizon: editing. Editing can be a daunting prospect, but it is one hundred percent […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/writing-the-s-word-navigating-sex-in-your-story/feed/ 0 27378 How To Handle Being Hit With Deconstructive Criticism https://booksbywomen.org/how-to-handle-being-hit-with-deconstructive-criticism/ https://booksbywomen.org/how-to-handle-being-hit-with-deconstructive-criticism/#respond Sun, 12 May 2019 09:05:15 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=26541 The Wrecking Ball How to handle being hit with deconstructive criticism By Susan K. Hamilton I jumped onto my Twitter feed recently and a Tweet slapped me in the face. It was from a woman—an aspiring writer—who tweeted that she felt “so broken” because her father had just told her to give up writing, that […]

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