Steph Huddleston

The Rough Draft: April

April’s wrap-up, filled with writing, editing, adventuring, and restful updates!

How to Write Unlikable (but still compelling) Characters: Yellowface Book Review

R.F Kuang’s latest novel, Yellowface, has been everywhere recently. And for good reason. The book is a twisty, compelling read, with characters you’ll love to hate and a healthy dose of publishing industry critique.

Poppy Solomon: How to Prepare for Professional Editing

If you’re reading this post, I’m assuming you have at least one draft of your book down (or you’re just getting ahead with research and planning, which is amazing!) and you’re wondering what the next step is. How do you know if you’re ready for professional editing?

In this post, we’ll discuss some steps to help you figure out if you’re ready to work with an editor, talk about how to prepare to work best with an editor, and go over some tips on finding the right one to work with, and what comes next.

Epigraphs in Fantasy: Fourth Wing Review

As writers (and editors) reading is one of the best things to do to understand what does and doesn’t work. Fourth Wing is a recent example of one of my favourite elements of a book that I don’t think we talk about enough: epigraphs.

Are tropes and cliches always a bad thing? Romance Genre spotlight

Writers will at some stage come across the feedback in their own writing, or perhaps in reviews that says: “avoid cliches” or “this was too trope driven”. But what does that advice mean? And should writers always avoid tropes and cliches? While the answer varies depending on who you ask, I’d like to take aContinue reading “Are tropes and cliches always a bad thing? Romance Genre spotlight”

January Wrap-Up

The first month of the year has flown by and February is just around the corner. I hope the year has started well for you, wherever you are reading this from.

For this, the first post of 2023, I’ll be sharing a bit about what I’ve been up to over the holiday period as well as some of my plans for the year ahead.

November Monthly Wrap-Up

The last few months have been busy, so I wanted to share a different kind of post to update you on what I’ve been up to recently. In addition to my usual posts, looking forward to 2023, I plan to share more of these more informal behind-the-scenes posts. If that’s not your thing, don’t worry, there’s plenty of my usual writing and editing content planned for 2023.

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