093 - Mia Kleve, Toss a Coin to Your Editor, Pt 2 [Worlds Asunder]

This week we’re excited to give listeners a new spin on worldbuilding, building bibles, and keeping your stories straight. Today’s guest is Mia Kleve, avid reader of science fiction, fantasy, and just about everything in between. Mia has been proofreading and editing for more than ten years and has experience with developmental edits, copy edits, world bibles, and more. 

Join us in learning more about how your editors tick, what they can do for your writing process, and how you can help smooth the path for them before you submit your manuscript. 

 

In Part Two, We Discuss: 

• Dialects and accents 
• Tools for world bibles: Word, Excel, Access, Notion, World Anvil 
• Character tracking and character sheets 
• Learning tropes, and deciding when and how to use them
• Tracking characters (for pantsers) 
• Making character and place names unique 

 

Resources and Guest Links: 

• Mia’s site: http://www.mrkdup.com/
• MRK’d Up Editing on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mrkdup 
• Remarkable tablet: https://remarkable.com/
• Notion: https://www.notion.com/
• Chicago Manual of Style: https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html
• Shunn’s modern manuscript formatting: https://www.shunn.net/format/story/ 
• World Anvil: https://www.worldanvil.com/ 
• Casey “Moops” Moores: https://www.caseymoores.net/ 

 

We can’t emphasize enough how important it is to work with a good editor. We’re grateful to Mia for lending us her expertise and digging into the technical side of worldbuilding and storycraft. 

 

Host Links: 

• H.Y. Gregor: https://hygregor.com/
• David Shadoin: https://www.davidshadoin.com/ 

 

Credits: (all assets licensed through the sites listed)

• Intro: Music- Cinematic Epic Trailer by PaulYudin on Pixabay

• Animation and Image- From Vecteezy user- kazim hussian; from pixabay users-davidfoxx, DavidGallie, olenchic, stefaniejockschat, AiVreaSaStii, RuneSnow, duyen-nguyen, EnchantedStudios, 

• Outro: Music- Good Night by FASSounds on Pixabay

• Animation and Image- From Vecteezy user-onlydesignz; from pixabay users-olenchic, Placidplace, Evgeniy_Z, Dantegrafico, Shayea_Kim