Publishing Push
Patrick WalshA working editor's notebook. The manuscripts I'm reading, the patterns I'm noticing, the edits I'm making this week. Most writing advice is theoretical. This is different. I edit fiction, memoir, and indie author manuscripts for a living.
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From manuscript feedback to a publishing deal 🎉
One of the things I love most about this work is hearing what happens next.
A little while ago, Gen Ponce came to Publishing Push for feedback on his manuscript.
We did what we always do. Gave honest, detailed, actionable input and then...
The Gut-Punch Is Never a Speech
(Details below have been changed to protect an unpublished manuscript.)
This week a client sent me a scene sketch that stopped me cold at my desk, and I want to talk about why, because the why is one of the most useful things I know about...
The Book Stephen King Threw in the Bin
It was 1972. King was working out of a cramped trailer, writing in the laundry room, chain-smoking, exhausted, broke. He managed three pages of a story about a bullied teenage girl called Carrie and decided they were rubbish. He couldn’t co...
Every Sentence Should Create a Question
Someone watched my video about Lee Child’s writing process, then picked up the first Jack Reacher novel and started doing something fascinating.
Instead of analysing the plot...they analysed the questions and here’s what they found.
“I...
Your Action Scene Isn't Too Long. It's Repeating Itself.
What I found when I mapped a fantasy battle beat by beat.
This week I’ve been working with an author on a big, ambitious fantasy manuscript, and this week we tackled a note that comes up in almost every edit I do: “the opening battle runs...
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