This is your blog as much as mine.
I’m an author first, editor second. Well, technically, I was an editor first (working years as a Senior Technical Writer years before I published fiction). But I learned long ago that it’s all about the writing… THEN it’s all about the editing.
Anyone can learn how to edit better, how to make craft techniques your own, and how to better reach readers with amazing stories. YOUR stories. Still, you must create with your own unique voice the stories that only you can tell. Writing is your gift, it’s how you enter the world. Learning how better to do what you do is the challenge I’m grateful to assist you with, any way I can.
As I travel and teach and give keynotes and instruct at weekend masterclasses and one-day, intensive events, I empower students to create passionately, edit with confidence, and set their unique voices free.
The same with my author coaching and editing clients, whom I help develop proposals, partials and full manuscripts; work with on content (developmental) editing at whatever creative stage works best for the author and project; copy edit for once a project is complete; and teach on a monthly basis as an author coach, providing custom-designed instruction that helps them master key writing and editing techniques.
The focus of all of that I do? To take the author and manuscript to the next level. My job is to help YOU write better and be empowered to set the bar for your work and stories and the resulting reader experience ever higher.
More coming soon on all the above, as I move my How You Write blog series to this site, share details about my editorial and speaking services, and offer monthly craft workshops–snippets of some of the work I do with clients and students.
In the meantime:
- Catch me on my Anna DeStefano: How You Write Facebook Page. LIKE me there to be part of a fun, creative, supportive community of writers.
- Click over to my Anna DeStefano LinkedIn Profile to read more about the editing, coaching and speaking side of my business a.
- Email me at anna “at” annawrites.com to discuss your speaking, editing or coaching needs.
Then check back here for craft and inspirational posts you don’t want to miss!
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