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Self-Editing for Everyone Part 5: When Words Get in the Way
Not all your writing is created equal. Welcome to Part 5 of Self-Editing for Everyone, based on all that editorial advice you can't live without but can find in the pages of The Little Book of...
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Self-Editing for Everyone Part 6: Secrets of Relative Velocity
The one on the right is the gas. The information in this article is based on my book, The Little Book of Self-Editing for Writers, which you can buy at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo for the...
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Self-Editing for Everyone Part 7: Two Languages
You are a veritable genius. Before we get to the real reason you're here, give me a moment to remind you that the information in this article is based on my book, The Little Book of Self-Editing for...
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Self-Editing for Everyone Part 8: Dialogue Tags
The information you're about to read is based on my book, The Little Book of Self-Editing for Writers, which you can buy, if you wish, at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo for a mere $2.99. Now on...
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Self-Editing for Everyone Part 9: The Case of the Dangling Modifier
This article is brought to you by The Little book of Self-Editing for Writers, available at Amazon, AmazonUK, B&N, and Kobo for the paltry sum of $2.99.Misplaced Modifiers and Dangling...
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Self-Editing for Everyone Part 10: Passive Voice
Self-Editing for Everyone Part 10: Passive Voice is brought to you by the letter Z, the number 3, and The Little Book of Self-Editing for Writers, available at Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, and all Amazon...
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Self-Editing for Everyone Part 11: Homophones
Know more than your spellchecker. This 11th and penultimate chapter of Self-Editing for Everyone is inspired by and expands upon The Little Book of Self-Editing for Writers, available for the price of...
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Self-Editing for Everyone Part 12: Point of View Violations
It's all in your point of view UPDATE: The revised and enlarged version of The Little Book of Self-Editing for Writers is now available at amazon.com, amazon.co.uk, amazon.ca, amazon.com.au, and all...
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Why I Didn't Keep Reading Your Book, Part 1
Ophelia - Zone1Design.com Dear Writer Who Shall be Anonymous,Why, oh why couldn’t I get past the third page of your book? Your cover was frankly awesome. The price—on a special deal from Amazon—was...
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Why I Didn't Keep Reading Your Book, Part 2
Golden City - Zone 1 Design Dear Anonymous Writer,Recently your book broke into the top 1000 on Amazon’s sales rankings, and went considerably higher in your subgenres despite having an unprofessional...
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The Author as Publisher, Author as Fraud
Criminal? Dishonest? Morally Questionable? So, should independent author-publishers have their own publishing imprints? I wondered about this when I was first dippng my toes in the indie waters this...
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A Little Book
This is my newest baby, The Little Book of Self-Editing for Writers. It’s the first in a series of five Little Books to help writers with various aspects of their craft.As I point out on the opening...
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Lafcadio Hearn and the Beauty of Words
Patrick Lafcadio Hearn / Koizumi Yakumo Below are excerpts from a letter by writer Lafcadio Hearn to his editor. Hearn was born in Greece to a Greek mother and an Irish father. He was raised in...
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The Books of Eden and the WIP Challenge
What I really do for a living My good friend R.K. MacPherson tagged me in the Work in Progress Challenge. I will have my revenge in time. The idea is to answer the questions below, then pass the...
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Take a Free Book! Take Two (they're small)!
FREEBIE #1Free on Amazon 29 October - 2 November 2012Richie is a dealer, selling tickets on a steep drop to hopeless addiction. To music. His best friend Vince lives in poverty to support his craving...
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The Mystery and the Method (And the Magic...and the Madness...)
If you’re a reader—especially one who dreams from whatever distance about writing, you may be curious about how writers do what they do. If you’re already a writer, you may still be curious about how...
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Self-Editing for Everyone Part 1: The Most-Hated Writing Advice Ever
Yes, it's the dreaded "Show, don’t tell." You may already know I wrote a book called The Little Book of Self-Editing for Writers, available at Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.ca, Amazon.com.au, and...
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Self-Editing for Everyone Part 2: Vampire Verbs, Zombie Verbs, and Verbs that...
Run away! Welcome to Part 2 of my self-editing series based on all that super-useful stuff in The Little Book of Self-Editing for Writers, available at Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.ca,...
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Self-Editing for Everyone Part 3: Attack of the Adverbs!
They've come for your verbs. Kill them. Welcome to Part 3 of Self-Editing for Everyone, based on all that super-useful stuff in The Little Book of Self-Editing for Writers. This time we'll be focusing...
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Self-Editing for Everyone Part 4: The Weakeners
Gravity sucks, and so does weak writing. “Vigorous writing is precise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should...
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Go to Occupy Publishing. Do it now.
Over on Occupy Publishing, I've posted an article on what writers—indie or otherwise—need to know about editing, a list of recent Internet articles on editing, and a document that will help writers...
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Yesterday I re-published one of my favorite short stories, "The Old Organ Trail." In keeping with my practice of providing the afterwords I include with these published stories for free, what follows...
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Edit: to revise or correct, as a manuscript
I originally posted this one over on Occupy Publishing, but I realize not all my visitors drop by there, so I thought I'd repost it here, because for those of us doing some or all of our publishing as...
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I Have Heard the Mermaids Singing - Writing “Evenings, Mornings, Afternoons”
A Mermaid - John William Waterhouse, 1901 Yesterday I re-published one of my favorite short stories: “Evenings, Mornings, Afternoons.” This one originally appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction...
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Hail to the King - How I Wrote “A King in Exile”
I just published my short story “A King in Exile” to Amazon, iBooks, Kobo, Scribd, and Barnes & Noble. You can buy it for 99c or the local equivalent, or sign up for my newsletter and get it for...
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