Category Archives: Editing

Writers’ Mill Minutes 202110

Minutes from Oct 17th 2021

Between 12 and 15 members attended Sunday’s Writers’ Mill meeting. Some were unable to attend because they had problems finding the email link. It seems rather unproductive to ask you to please email me if you don’t get this email but… if you do get this email, but don’t get the one with the email link for the next meeting, please email me during the morning, so I can resend the link to you before the meeting starts. Our next meeting will be on Sunday November 21st, and we plan to upload the anthology and create the cover “before your very eyes.” 

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Writers’ Mill minutes July 19th 2020

25 people attended the Writers’ Mill Zoom meeting this month, and enjoyed a very informative, inspirational and encouraging talk from Cindy Brown, author of the Ivy Meadows mysteries. Cindy’s handout can be downloaded from https://www.portlandwritersmill.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Mysteries-handout-from-Cindy-Brown.docx and I’ll include the edited version with notes from our session at the end of this email.

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Writers’ Mill Minutes 202004 April 2020

Twenty-one people attended the first ever online Writers’ Mill meeting this month, including Sheila’s Mum, from England, and Laura (our wonderful host) from the library. We owe a huge thank you to Laura for providing and monitoring the online Zoom room for us.

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We made a book, and you can too!

Our “Let’s make another book” presentation covered and/or touched the following book-creation topics, with notes and additional information below:

  • How to Title your book
  • How to Format your book
  • How to Edit your book
  • How to Prepare your book for Printing
  • How to Prepare your book for Kindle
  • How to Upload your ebook
  • How to use Amazon’s Cover Creator
  • How to Upload your print book (and use Cover Creator again!)
  • How to get your book onto your Author Page (yes, I know, I didn’t have time to cover this, but some of you asked…)

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Writers’ Mill Minutes 10191117

November’s meeting brought 13 of us to watch and assist in the uploading of The Writers’ Mill Journal Volume 7 to Amazon. Those of you who missed it missed some fantastic healthy snacks from Ria and an ongoing scene of great stress, excitement and triumph. The minutes below are LONG because I’ve tried to cover everything we did and all the questions I was asked about what we might not have done. So here goes… Continue reading Writers’ Mill Minutes 10191117

ProWritingAid from Jim’s talk, Aug 18th 2019

Notes on ProWritingAid from James Elstad’s talk, August 18th

Jim is the author of several books, both fiction and non-fiction, and is using ProWritingAid to help with his fourth novel. You can find him at  https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6491416.James_R_Elstad or look for his books at https://www.amazon.com/s?k=james+elstad&i=stripbooks&ref=nb_sb_noss Pick up spare copies of notes from his talk at our next meeting if you missed it! Continue reading ProWritingAid from Jim’s talk, Aug 18th 2019

Writers’ Mill Minutes 20190818

Our August meeting was fairly sparsely attended (only around 12 people), but those of you who missed it missed two excellent presentations—one from Jim on ProWritingAid, and one from Ria on emergency preparedness. So, whether you think your latest novel or your home and family are fully prepared or not, you should make sure to read these minutes! Continue reading Writers’ Mill Minutes 20190818

Writers’ Mill Minutes 201906

Writers’ Mill Minutes 20190616 16th June 2019

Our Writers’ Mill meeting fell on Father’s Day, and those members unable to take time out missed an excellent and inspiring talk about editing from Donna Reynolds, plus the chance for one-on-one advice, fantastic snacks from Robin, and a most productive discussion about our upcoming anthology. Continue reading Writers’ Mill Minutes 201906