Episode 158 Take the advice that works for you. A conversation with freelance editor Ellen Brock

The Creative Writer's Toolbelt

Mar 04 2020 | 00:59:06

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Show Notes

This episode features one of my favourite guests, an editor who manages to combine a formidable expertise with a friendly and accessible manner, you’ll most likely know her from her YouTube channel, but she also featured in a two part episode on the podcast in 2018, it’s the wonderful Ellen Brock. In this conversation Ellen gives us some recommended reading for mastering the structure of story, provides some insights on how to manage point of view in close third person, and also gives us some great advice on what advice we should actually use and what we should discard.

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