Writing your first novel-Things you should know
I recently started the revision process on my manuscript. One of many, but more importantly, the first after a year of leaving it on the shelf.
I think the one mistake I was making that surprised me the most, was echo words. I couldn’t believe it. I know better. I’ve been at this for six years. How in the world could something like that happen?
You would be surprised what you miss. I also missed commas, had commas that didn’t belong, and started some sentences in one tense and ended them in another. Unbelievable.
I don’t know, maybe I’m a bad writer, but I don’t think so. I use to see mistakes on other people’s blogs and think, I can’t believe they missed that. I’m sure I missed stuff too, because I’ve gone back to old blogs and corrected mistakes. I can’t believe I posted them 🙂
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