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Choose Your Own Final Draft: Applying Reader Feedback
If you caught the last couple of Tuesday posts, you’ll know I’ve been talking about the final stages of manuscript preparation– knowing when to stop polishing a manuscript, finding beta readers, etc. I...
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Editing for Authors: Part 1, The Importance of Being an Editor
Welcome back to my Tuesday blog on craft! I’m starting a new series this week in response to several questions that have come in from authors over the past couple of months on the subject of editing...
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Editing for Authors: Part 2, Perspective and How to Find it
Continuing my series on being your own editor, I’m talking today about the importance of the right perspective when editing your own work, specifically the role that time plays in your editorial...
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Editing for Authors: Part 4a, Meet the Style Sheet
Continuing my series on editing for authors, I’m talking today and next week about the role of a style sheet in the editing process and why a good style sheet can be an author-editor’s best friend. To...
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Editing for Authors: Part 4b, The Great and Powerful Style Sheet
Welcome back to my series on editing for authors. Last week, I started to talk about the role of a style sheet in the editing process, specifically the story and character-related elements. This week,...
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Editing for Authors: Part 5, The Big Picture
Welcome back (after a couple weeks off) to my series on editing for authors. I spent the last two posts talking about the role of a style sheet in the editing process (here and here, if you missed...
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Editing for Authors, Part 7: Rewriting vs. Editing
Welcome back to the series on editing for authors that will continue until I run out of things to say on the subject! If you missed last week’s post (which appeared on Friday instead of Tuesday), we...
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Editing for Authors: Part 8, Editing for a Specific Audience
Welcome back to Editing for Authors, the series where I surprise myself every week by having something else to say on the subject! I’m getting ready to wrap up the series, but before I do I wanted to...
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Editing for Authors: Part 9, Writing Lessons from Editing
Here we are at the final installment of my “Editing for Authors” series. If you’ve been following from the beginning, you know we’ve talked about several different editing styles and strategies and...
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