Aime Sund | Fiction Editor 📝📚
Fiction editor for all publishing paths | Story and word cultivator.
I love working with indie authors! | Bring the 🌶️!
Nonfiction editor specializing in botanical topics. 🌱🌼🌳
I write Fantasy & Over-40 romance in my spare moments.
www.redleafwords.com
- 🗣️You text your protagonist: “Hey, we need to talk.” Do they: A) 📖 Send back an essay-length response? B) 👍 Reply with one word? C) 🤨 Use an emoji and assume you understand? D) 👻 Leave you on read for 1--3 business days? 1/2 📚#WritingCommunity
- 📚 Stories need room to grow, but sometimes they need a sharp 👁️ and a steady 🤚 to help them flourish. That’s where I come in. Whether your manuscript needs a light touch or a structural overhaul, I’ve got you with edits that respect your voice and cultivate your work. 🔗 in bio #WritingCommunity
- 📚You ever stare at your manuscript and think, "Wow, this is a jungle." 🌿 First drafts are chaotic. Editing is where you prune. Trim✂️ the dead weight, shape the structure, and let the strongest parts breathe.
- Tension is the secret sauce of storytelling. Without it, readers check out. ❌ No stakes = no investment. ❌ No conflict = no momentum. ❌ No surprises = no fun. Scenes need something at risk so readers have a reason to care. And if the tension’s missing? Let's crank it up. 😉📚 #WritingCommunity
- 🚀🚲Pacing is the heartbeat of your novel. Get it right, and readers can’t put it down. Get it wrong, and… well, good luck getting them past chapter three. 😬 🔸 Info dumps stall momentum. 🔸 Dragging scenes kill tension. 🔸 Rushed action steals impact. (1/2)
- 📚 Editor's Tip: Want to hook readers instantly? Start your story where your MC's normal world first cracks. The ancient Romans called it "in medias res" (into the middle of things). It worked for The Odyssey. It's worked for countless bestsellers. It'll work for your ms too. #WritingCommunity
- 📚👀 The "mucky middle"? A story's midpoint isn't a rest stop🥱. It's where everything changes. 🔄️ If your MC strolls through the motions instead of facing a life-altering choice or discovery, readers will close your book. Don't let your story flatline in the middle. Add some 🤜💥! #WritingCommunity
- Author voice = the distinctive personality that emerges while writing. Style = the linguistic and structural choices that give that voice texture. Every writer has a unique imprint waiting to be refined, not erased. An editor's art is in amplification, not modification. 📚💙✍️ #WritingCommunity
- 📚💙 When an author does something well, editors want to learn from them too. #WritingandBooks
- Your 🧠 sabotages self-editing. But it's not your fault! Fun fact: your 🧠 fills gaps & fixes errors when reading your own writing because it knows what you meant to ✍️. That's why even on the 99th read you still miss "their" instead of "there". An editor's 👀 can help 🔎📝 #WritingCommunity
- Going old school tomorrow: I'm meeting a prospective client for lunch. Face to face, over coffee/tea, talking about her book. And I can't wait. I love the sound of her story. I'd be thrilled to be part of her publishing journey. 🤞 📝 📚 #writingcommunity #writingandbooks
- Debunking a common fear about working with editors 🔍 Editors don't rewrite your voice - we amplify it. Imagine a sound engineer at your favorite artist's concert. They're not changing the singer's voice, they're making sure you hear it at its clearest and most powerful. 🎤 1/2 #AuthorSky
- Reposted by Aime Sund | Fiction Editor 📝📚A crossroads demon falls for an exorcist and risks a death penalty when he illegally takes her to Hell. But when their secret is exposed, he faces a punishment crueler than death: either sacrifice her soul or she’s sent into slavery. 🥀hard-earned HEA🥀 #P2Ppit #Q #A #RF
- Shorter stories (<40,000 wds) are a fun yet challenging way to flex your writerly muscles. A new year of submissions is open, opportunities abound! When you're finished, check out my NEW edit packages for the short and sweet! www.redleafwords.com/options-for-... #writingcommunity #writingandbooks
- Today, apparently, is Science Fiction Day, so perhaps it's not a coincidence that I dived back into @jenniferestep.bsky.social's Galactic Bonds series with Only Good Enemies this morning. It is so freakin' good! I'm listening to the audiobook, which I highly recommend. 📚💙🪐
- Phew! Website updates with new services are finally done, so it's time to introduce the first one. My new Outline/Story Arc/Story Beats Evaluation helps you start drafting that shiny new idea with direction and confidence. 🤩✨✨ www.redleafwords.com/evaluations #WritingCommunity #WritingandBooks
- Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 16/20 #Books #BookSky #Bookchallenge 💙📚
- Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 15/20 #Books #BookSky #Bookchallenge 💙📚
- Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 14/20 #Books #BookSky #Bookchallenge 💙📚
