Today I welcome Karen Tyrrell to Spinning Pearls to talk about her follow-up to Me & Her - titled, appropriately enough, Me & Him!
1. How did the experience of writing Me & Him
compare with that of writing Me & Her?
Writing Me and Her was a cathartic experience, healing
from the traumas of parent-teacher abuse and mental illness. I wrote from two
points of view, Me: mother, wife,
teacher and writer. Her: psychic,
healer to the living, telepathic to the dead and I was very psychotic.
I wrote Me and Him as a conscious decision to
share my healing tools with others. Me
and Him comprises two books in one. A self- help book with a guide to
recovery and to mental happiness. And a memoir of dramatic events as Him, my husband-carer, divulged new insights
into my illness.
2. Which
book took you longer to write, and why?
Me and Her took six years and over 100
drafts to write, learning the craft of writing from the bottom up. Me and Him only took a year, utilizing my
experiences as a memoir and mental health author, blogger and a magazine article
writer.
3. How
many editing passes do you usually make before you hire an outside editor?
I re-drafted
my book until I couldn’t improve it any more. Then I sent out my manuscript to
beta readers for feedback and line editing. Finally I sought Affordable
Manuscripts for final editing and proof reading.
4. Do you have any advice to give writers
regarding self-editing?
Complete
a self-editing course like Queensland Writers Centre: Year of the Edit to learn
structural and line editing.
5. If you self-edit, is there any need to hire
an outside editor?
YES, you need an experienced pair of eyes to pick up
spelling, punctuation and grammatical mistakes as well as errors with the
facts, logic and sequence. An editor will suggest improvements to formatting
and word choice too. This ensures your manuscript is of the highest possible publishable
standard.
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