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Wanted: How to Find Your Best Editor
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
To read this article, please click on the photos of Corina Koch MacLeod and Carla Douglas, or the link below: http://www.thebookdesigner.com/2015/01/wanted-how-to-find-your-best-editor/
Most Mortals Need a Proofreader by Guest Author Wendy Janes @wendyproof
Originally posted on Lit World Interviews:
Why can’t you successfully proofread your own work? It’s very simple – you read what you expect to see. When you read other people’s work it’s fresh and new. Any errors seem to leap from the page, as the following examples demonstrate: “Perdita was so angry she felt like…
There’s no I in EYE
Originally posted on chrismcmullen:
Image from ShutterStock ? THERE’S NO I IN EYE There’s no I in EYE, But hear it I can’t DENY; Nor an I to be found in FLY, For which I must ask: WHY? ♦ I find no C in SEA, As you can plainly SEE; When I find no F…
5 Ways to Improve Your Writing Style
Originally posted on Writing Is Hard Work:
Why is it that two different writers could write in the same genre, write about the same ideas, plot devices and themes yet one writer creates beautiful prose while the other makes the reader never want to read again? Every time I write a chunk of prose that…
How a Social Media Strategist Saved My Book
Cynthia Reyes In August, a radio interviewer asked me what I had expected to happen after my book, A Good Home, was published in 2013. “Seriously?” I asked. “My plan was to go back to bed.” She laughed. But that was indeed my plan. I was in bad shape, from head to toe, injuries from […]
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