Rough Draft
Greta ValentineA look over my shoulder and into my head as I write speculative fiction
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Labyrinth Editing May 2026 Wrap-Up
Hello friends! It’s already time for the second monthly update on what I’ve been up to at Labyrinth Editing, my freelance editing and story coaching business. As always, if you’d like to stick to my posts on writing and life musings, you ca...
Labyrinth Editing April Wrap-Up
Hello friends!
I’m starting a new recurring series here on Rough Draft, which will provide you with monthly updates on what’s going on with my work as a freelance editor.
It’s likely that you signed up to Rough Draft for musings about lif...
waiting to be something
“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.” - Vincent van Gogh
a seedling waiting to be a tomato plant
I’ve never been good at waiting. Perhaps that’s...
everything we need is here
I’ve scrapped the scarf I’m knitting and started over from scratch four times so far. The first time I got pretty far, but decided it was too wide and I probably wouldn’t wear it, so I unraveled the whole thing and started over. Then I miss...
All the things I didn't do in 2025
The sun has set on the last day of 2025, and I’ve already been in a reflective mood during this liminal space between Christmas and the New Year. Time is a weird soup, and it seems crazy to me that this is still the same year I quit my long...
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Cross-genre speculative fiction author and editor. Writing stories of enchantment, loss, and the uncanny; here to help you tell your story, too.
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