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The Editor’s Pass Is Here
The Editor’s Pass is a complete family of workbooks that guide writers through the revision or self-editing process. It’s the macro-to-micro methodology that professional editors use every day, written for writers.
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Catherine Forrest
May 256 min read


Why I Don't Use AI in My Editing Practice
Do I use AI? Sure. For lots of stuff. But publishing is too important to me to jeopardize quality or, worse, copyright, with generative AI. That's why I do all my writing myself and all my editing myself.
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Catherine Forrest
Jun 215 min read


The Executive Function Assistant I Built Because I Couldn't Focus Long Enough to Finish Anything
Tailor: A focus companion and executive dysfunction assistant built from the ground up for adults who need help focusing:
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Catherine Forrest
Jun 153 min read


Revision Planner for Writers
If you had a single tool that could organize your entire revision process—from plot hole to final polish—would that make your book better?
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Catherine Forrest
Jun 125 min read


Let’s cook up some irresistible character voices
Voice is not what a character says. Voice is how a character cannot help saying it.
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Catherine Forrest
May 306 min read


Lock in to point-of-view (and eliminate head-hopping for good)
You can write a whole novel in first person and still violate POV if your narrator knows something they couldn’t possibly know. You can write in omniscient third and still fail if you head-hop without purpose. That’s why I made The POV Lock.
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Catherine Forrest
May 205 min read


Why a printable on Etsy instead of a book on Amazon?
The flexibility is the value signal. Not the binding. You wondered: Aren’t you selling something less valuable by selling it as a PDF? No. I’m selling something more usable. More reusable. More flexible.
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Catherine Forrest
May 184 min read


When your beta readers are doing their best (but you need better feedback)
If you’ve been frustrated by the beta reading process, if you’ve gotten vague feedback—or no feedback at all—and wanted a solution, I made this for you.
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Catherine Forrest
May 134 min read


Action isn’t narrative tension
Action doesn't equal tension. Learn why "raise the stakes" is useless advice—and get a concrete system to map, diagnose, and fix your manuscript's pacing problems.
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Catherine Forrest
May 65 min read


You Can’t Optimize Your Way Out of Bad Inputs (But You Can Fix Them Upstream)
Authors aren’t an external variable. They’re our front end. Optimize upstream or keep paying for it downstream.
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Catherine Forrest
May 14 min read


It Happened to Me: The Importance of Documenting Your Writing Process
I fed my own work—100% human written, no AI assistance anywhere in the process—into an AI detection tool. It came back flagged as partially AI-generated.
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Catherine Forrest
Apr 223 min read


You Can’t Copyright AI-Generated Content. Here’s What Publishers and Indie Authors Need to Know.
The law is clear. The courts have ruled. The Supreme Court just declined to hear the appeal. If you’re publishing AI content without significant human work, you’re building on sand.
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Catherine Forrest
Apr 154 min read


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