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Should you use volunteers to proofread your book?
What if you skipped paying for a professional editor and crowdsourced your editing instead? Or what about your neighbor who’s a retired English teacher? She says she’d only charge $200
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File names that show your manuscript revision status
When your whole story lies ahead of you, it’s easy to naively assume you’ll name your manuscript file TheGirlWiththeFuzzyManuscript_Orig, then go to FuzzyGirl_Revised, and maybe finish with TGWTFM_BetaFeedback. What you
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The writer’s solution to beating perfectionism and procrastination
Every writer wants to become that noteworthy debut author who’s the darling of the bestseller charts and book blogs. With that kind of pressure, it’s no wonder so many authors
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Are you overusing character names in your novel?
Some of the most common edits I make at the sentence and paragraph levels have to do with overusing character names in a story. These edits arise from a single
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Kick-start your own career development program for new novelists
What if everything in the world went right for your book, and now you may actually have a writing career? The thing that many emerging authors neglect to plan for
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Develop your writing muscle through imitation
Modeling and imitation are time-tested techniques used by athletes, artists, and skill-builders of all stripes. One of the best ways to stretch your writing skills is to draw inspiration from
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Affordable ways to study the craft of writing
Are you still struggling with where to put the comma in a dialogue tag (or was that a period)? Forget mixing up peek/peak/pique; are you still struggling with it’s/its or
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