The Pursuit of Your Story
I have an overwhelming (and perhaps obsessive) passion for stories. They create connection and, from the time we are young, inculcate us with the morals and concepts that shape our worldly paradigms. They deliver words that sometimes resonate for a lifetime and other times speak so perfectly to a specific moment that greater profoundness or brilliance isn’t necessary. And we all have them. Whether your story is inspirational, magical, comical, heavyhearted, unnerving, frightening, brutal, or any combination, you should tell it . . .
“Krysta Winsheimer is an amazing editor. She is timely, easy to work with and brings a passion that is unparalleled. Her prices are competitive and she provides all details upfront so there are no surprises. She has personally helped me with several aspects of my first book and even provided additional guidance and resources for publication going above and beyond and exceeding my expectations. Krysta is organized and thorough and I sincerely appreciated her intense attention to detail. If you have a project in your head or something that you need edited to really convey concise meaning and power . . . Krysta is definitely the way to go!”
–Jennifer Crawford, Author of An Autism Adventure: The Not – So – Secret Diary
Writers’ Resources
Still unsure of exactly how the editing process should work, what type of edit you need, or how to find the right editor? This EFA guide might help:
Thinking about self-publishing? Here is some great advice from editor Sophie Playle at Liminal Pages:
Starving artists, rejoice! If you need some financial assistance to give you time/space to write or to support your journey to publication, check out some of the grants listed on Funds for Writers:
Inspiration Elsewhere
“Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer’s own life. This has been the case with me. Connections slowly emerge. Like distant landmarks you are approaching, cause and effect begin to align themselves, draw closer together. Experiences too indefinite of outline in themselves to be recognized for themselves connect and are identified as a larger shape. And suddenly a light is thrown back, as when your train makes a curve, showing that there has been a mountain of meaning rising behind you on the way you’ve come, is rising there still, proven now through retrospect. Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists. The strands are all there: to the memory nothing is ever lost.”
― Eudora Welty, On Writing
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewall to Arms
“In any case, there was only one tunnel, dark and lonely, mine, the tunnel in which I had spent my childhood, my youth, my whole life. And in one of those transparent lengths of the stone wall I had seen this girl and had gullibly believed that she was traveling another tunnel parallel to mine, when in reality she belonged to the broad world, to the world without confines of those who do not live in tunnels; and perhaps she had peeped into one of my strange windows out of curiosity and had caught a glimpse of my doomed loneliness, or her fancy had been intrigued by the mute language, the clue of my painting.”
― Ernesto Sabato, The Tunnel
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