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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Jan 18, 20212 min read
Forgetting What You've Written | House Blog
Back in university, I wrote a lot of essays the night before they were due. I'd get my research sorted out beforehand, but the actual...
Dec 19, 20202 min read
To 'Year In Review' or Not To 'Year In Review' | House Blog
Normally December is a time when people look back fondly on the things they did during the past 12 months, but this year has been...
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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