Edit, Edit, or Edit – Revisited

Nov1

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imagesI know I’ve posted this before, but it’s been a while, and I thought it was worth being revisited. When you’re a newbie like I was, you don’t even think you have to edit-much. The publishing company has people that will go through and correct your work, making you look like a pro, right?
A few years ago, I ran into an article in Writers Digest that talked about the different types of editing. Yes, there are different types, can you believe that? As a novelist, you need to know what they are.

Developmental Edit – better known as content editing, story editing, structural editing, or substantive editing. This edit looks at the big picture of your novel and focuses on:

  • character arcs/development
  • pacing
  • story structure
  • plot holes or inconsistencies
  • strong beginning, middle, and end
  • plausibility/believability
  • clear transitions
  • point of view
  • showing vs. telling
  • dialogue

Copy Edit – is the one most…

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Guide! Making Facebook page for Small Business

Oct31

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Facebook has turn much than fair activity games, responsibility tabs on your friends, and doing confused quizzes all day polysyllabic. Today, writer grouping than ever are using the powerfulness of Facebook to gestate the products and services that they require. Likewise, Facebook represents a large opportunity for petite businesses. When done right, your Facebook marketing strategy can beautify a highly-effective puppet. You can dispersion the language almost your products and services, kind sales, and infix with your customers in a customer-friendly way.

If you really deprivation to get the most out of your Facebook Writer, here are whatsoever grievous things you condition to do:
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  • Alter out your full profile. Don’t work. The statesman message you worship, the easier it instrument be for readers to trust you.
  • Don’t just use an own Facebook attender to promote your byplay. Having a commercialism industrialist adds laurels of professionalism.
  • Lie into applications…

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How to Apply for a Copyright Online – by Mona Bushnell…

Oct29

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on Business.com:

Don’t pay a service to apply for a copyright.

Save your money and DIY with our handy step-by-step guide.

If you want to protect your ideas and prevent them from being replicated or stolen, you’re probably considering applying for a copyright.

Luckily for you, the process is easy and doesn’t even require tearing yourself away from the internet.

Continue reading HERE

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How To Use ProWritingAid As Your Coach And Writing Editor – by Derek Haines…

Oct14

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on Just Publishing Advice:

Every writer would like to have an editor

In a perfect world, having an editor to rely on would be your preference. But in reality, we know that the cost of hiring a professional is beyond the reach of the majority of writers.

There are many self-help, short story and fiction writers using self-publishing today. But it is unrealistic to think that all of them can afford to pay for someone to help in the writing and editing process.

But there is an expectation from readers that when they buy a book or even read a blog post or online news article, that the texts will be perfect.

If you read some of the major newspapers online, you will know that even with professional copy and line editors, mistakes still occur.

However, that is not an excuse. You should always be looking for ways to improve your writing…

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Ten Things I love Most in the World

Oct14

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DSCF0617.JPGTen Things I love Most in the World…

1. Mother Nature has been the number one love in my life for longer than I can remember. My idea of heaven would be to live in a forest with a river nearby.

2.  The way I feel about horses goes way beyond love. Sometimes I think I must have been a horse in a former life, from the strong and powerful connection I seem to have with them.

3.  I have always been a bit of a freak for thunderstorms. The noise, barely contained power and the majesty of the lightning speaks to me in ways I cannot describe.

4.  Whenever I have spare time, and even when I don’t, I have to track down a puzzle. It can be a jigsaw, a computer game, or a simple game of solitaire. My idea of heaven.

5.  Something about the…

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