Welcome to Death Of 1000 Cuts – making you an awesome writer, one cut at a time. This is a blog for writers, readers, creative people and anyone nosy about how authors make the language-stuff sound real nice. Every week we take the first page of an author’s novel or short story – polished to … Read more

Hello and welcome to Death Of 1000 Cuts – making you an awesome writer, one cut at a time. This is an editing blog for fiction writers, creative people who work with words and nosy readers who want to see how the ugly gubbins under the bonnet does its business. Every Thursday I take the … Read more

Welcome to Death Of 1000 Cuts – making you an awesome writer, one cut at a time. This is a blog about self-editing fiction. If you’ve just started writing or you’ve been hammering away for years, I hope that you’ll find something useful amongst my discussions of how to make bad sentences into slightly less … Read more

Hey friends, and welcome to another Death of 1000 Cuts – making you an awesome writer, one cut at a time. Please share this blog with your friends, tweet about it, post about it on forums and on your website, make general noise. It’s a quick and easy way to spread the word and I … Read more