🥑 two things and no other examples

This may be the second email you’ve ever received from an avocado.

Specifically, an avocado with a slogan: “Revise your stories one bite at a time.”

(I’m not really an avocado, I’m a human named Addison who runs an editing business, but stick with me.)

Seven years ago, when I started writing again as an adult, I dreaded revising anything I wrote. Whether poetry, short stories, or 100,000-word manuscripts, my first drafts felt sacred and untouchable.

I don’t feel that way anymore—but not because of some grand, life-changing revelation.

It’s because I put in a little bit of work at a time.

And, after helping dozens of authors elevate their manuscripts, I’d like to help you too.

Avocado Bites is about two things and no other examples. Every week, you’ll receive bite-sized tips crafted to help you at any stage of drafting or revising. No fluff—just practical application on the topics you care about from prose to plot.

The other thing: editing deals. All subscribers can request a free sample edit at any time by replying to any Avocado Bites email (like this one). And I’ll drop limited-time offers into the newsletter every so often, starting with this:

When we reach 100 subscribers, I will pick one subscriber at random to receive 20% off any single editing service.

So invite your author friends. Let’s become better writers and better revisers—one bite at a time.

Next Monday: let’s talk dialogue.

What do you want to learn about? Reply to this email with your question or topic; I may use it in a future Bite.

Thanks for reading Avocado Bites!

^{Avocado Bites is a publication of Avocado Tree Press, LLC, that helps you revise your stories one bite at a time. We love working with indie and traditionally published authors on fiction manuscripts—and if that’s you, welcome to our target audience.}

^{Ready for a sample edit? Here’s our site.}

^{Addison Horner is the chief editor of Avocado Tree Press. Here’s his newsletter. It’s different but still pretty good.}