Now this one seems self-explanatory, doesn’t it? No one wants to be seen as a wordy writer. But often I see prose that just drowns under a sea of …
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Why You should (or shouldn’t) have Multiple Editors for Your Book
You already know that different editors for books do different things. We have developmental editors, copy editors, and proofers. And all three play …
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The Rules of Writing Part 3 Why Doesn’t Multiple-First-Person Viewpoint Work?
Now, as a fiction editor, I see this one all the time—literally all the time. It’s one of those rules (a cardinal rule, actually) that new writers, …
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