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Murder Your Darlings Do you want to have the right professional attitude to ensure your writing career? Then you must be ready to "Murder your darlings", a phrase coined by F Scott Fitzgerald (or Quiller Couch or Nabakov or even Stephen King, dep...
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The Essence of Editing Your manuscript is finally finished, but is it ready to send to a publisher? A poorly edited book is harder to read, harder to believe, and less likely to be reviewed. A professional editor can help detect passages that are unclear, poorly organ...
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Editorial Checklist Follow this checklist to be sure your manuscript is ready for submission to a publisher.  Increase your chances of being published with a professional looking manuscript.  
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5 Top Tips For Catching Errors in Your Writing It's finally finished and you're eager to publish your writing.  But is it ready?  Use these five simple suggestions to catch errors before your work is published, increasing your credibility as a writer. 
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Six Steps to Better Editing and Writing Proofreading and editing one's own writing is very difficult. A quick reread seldom exposes the errors inherent in the work, but following the steps discussed in this article, should help you develop an efficient and effective method of proofing a...
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Editing Genre Writing Genre writing has its own set of expectations. Although most writers like to fit somewhere in the spectrum of "literary," certain expectations exist in genre fiction which alter the scope of the writing and the edit.
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Steven Manchester, Your Friendly Book Editor You've gotta love a man with a thick Massachusetts accent who obviously loves all aspects of writing, helping other writers and... well, life. Steven Manchester has been writing and publishing books for over 11 years. Though Manchester has edited t...
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What Does an Editor Do? Here is a short, but very helpful description of what a book editor does to a manuscript. This article is written by an editor who knows her business. If you're not using an editor for your book, you may be making a big mistake.  
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Questions to ask a Potential Editor What you need to know before you decide to work with an editor.
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