editing | Credible Ink

Fixing Fiction: What to do if your story has too many protagonists

Dec 1, 2019 | editing, Writing

Your story has multiple protagonists and you’re in trouble. You can’t figure out how to juggle these characters to make the story work. What do you do? Luckily, you don’t have as big a problem as you think. *phew* Read on… To decide who is your protagonist, you...

Book 3 Pool Staker is almost ready!

Aug 8, 2018 | during, editing, Escapeboard

I’m at the editing stage and almost ready to release the new book: Pool Staker.

Smarter Writers Use Semi-colons and Colons

May 29, 2018 | during, editing

I have heard in writing circles that writers who use the semi-colon are just demonstrating that they’ve been to college/Uni. And that writers should either pause (comma), not pause (no comma), or stop completely (full stop). This is not true at all. A semi-colon...

Mistakes I Make When Writing Fast First Drafts

Sep 9, 2017 | during, editing

The point I want to make is usually at the end of the sentence because I’m thinking things up as I go. This means a lot of rewriting because the sentence is clunky. I know I shouldn’t leave it like that but I often do. Echoing headwords. Too many sentences...

Demystifying the creative writing process

Feb 15, 2016 | Blog, during, editing

I have changed the strap line for Credibleink.com to ‘Demystifying the creative writing process.’ Whoa, hold up there, Mark. Don’t you need to be a skilled professional/teacher to become an authority on a craft such as this? No. You just need to...

Regretting my POV choice & loving my revision process

Feb 12, 2016 | Blog, during, editing

Over the past few days I’ve struggled with my story. I really wanted to rewrite from a new perspective (1st POV) and began doing so. This was a huge mistake, because I will end up rewriting the whole story, and obviously, delay my production. I had forgotten why...