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: How can I catch more errors when I proofread? I have a problem where I often proof my own writing and I don't catch all the errors while I am reading through it. I often miss entire words
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: What's the point of writing that I know will never be used or read? Writing can be a very difficult, frustrating, stressful and effortful process. It can also be very isolating to the writer.
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: What's the least distracting method to inform editors I'm a woman? I have a gender-neutral name, so people often assume I'm a man. However, a portion of the writing I do is for tech companies.
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: Which techniques can I use to become a better editor when editing my own writing? I'm looking to improve my ability to edit and correct my own writing. What are some techniques I can use
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: How can I keep my writing from being perceived as "too complicated" This is from a piece I wrote a couple of years back: The sky seemed like a big, large pool of grey smoke. The weather
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: What's a word for a person who took a very rough story and made it into a book? I have written a book. Well, actually, my mother-in-law told the story of her experiences as a German forced
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: Text Editors. Suggesting & Tracking Changes to Plain-Text Documents Many word processors are capable to tracking and displaying changes made to a document. Those changes are typically displayed
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: So I finished my novel. Now what do I do? A few days ago I finished the first draft of my current novel project after a few months of work, finishing at 83,212 words. Now what should I
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: Adding breaks in a novel—spaces, asterisks, or a chapter break? I am editing my first novel and wherever I find a natural break in the story, I add a few spaces. I want to go back and
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: What methods can I use to revise my writing? Background I am finding it challenging to transform an early draft into a finished product. My biggest challenges are putting the prose in the
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: Self Editing tips/tricks I write a daily piece and have been doing so for over 8 years. I think my writing has gotten better, but I still find mistakes at times, or more likely, my readers
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: Is writing three drafts really necessary? So I understand the first draft which is basically writing whatever comes to mind but I don't understand why we have to rewrite it three times. Can
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: Is it possible for an author to release a novel every week using dictation technology? I have heard that authors can do 5000 words an hour with dictation. For a six-hour day writing, that
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: How can I make my 'first draft' good enough to be published? One of my bugbears about writing is the editing process. I'd much rather get it right first time, rather than chop this and change
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: I wrote a novel, now what? I'm new here, so, please, bear with me. I had a look at previous answers to similar questions, but my case is (possibly) a bit different. I am not a professional
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: Trying to indicate that the frequency is annoying I am trying to state that a particular question is not annoying, but its frequency is. I have come up with the below sentence, but I feel
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: Correct spelling errors while writing or after you've finished? With the "write, don't edit" rule in mind, how should one handle mistyping? I usually stop or go back to fix the error as soon
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: How much leeway can be expected from an editor regarding my preference for nonstandard punctuation? As I hope to present a unique style to the world, as I am not especially tolerant of being
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: I have written my first novel and I think it's ready. What next? I've completed my first novel and done as much editing as I think I can as the author. What should I do next in order to
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: How to survive editing I am currently trying to edit a one my most recent novel. Trying is the keyword. I asked a few people to read my book as beta readers, but all of them have been
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: Is it better to save each chapter in a separate word document or all in one document? I'm new here. In the past, I've written countless articles for newspapers, and I almost never needed to
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: How many errors should I expect from a proofreader? I hired a proofreader (typos, commonly confused words, minor grammar issues etc) to look at my work, which I plan to self publish. She found
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: When should a chapter end? When writing a novel, when should I end a chapter? Note that I'm not talking about chapter word-count (that topic was discussed here). I'm interested to know when
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: Why does an author need an editor? I'm firmly in the camp of "your novel needs an editor, and that editor better not be yourself." But recently I was asked why that was, and I couldn't
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: Finding before/after examples where writing has been improved, to learn from I'd like to see a series of example paragraphs, showing before/after a rewrite, to give me specific examples of how
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: Is there a way to make editing enjoyable? I have my first draft more-or-less complete, and I've been working on editing it now. There is one big problem: I hate editing I find editing to
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: Re-reading and making changes to current work that makes everything worse? I constantly re-read my work before writing again. It helps me get in the proper mind set. But my biggest problem is
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: Is writing in fragments bad practice? Occasionally, it feels easier to write individual scenes of a prose and later connect them somehow. Does this method have any significant benefit and/or throwback
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: Superpowers in Writing - Cool for the sake of cool I originally started planning/writing a short story that was more or less based on a few popular trends in YA/Sci-Fi writing (interstellar
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: How can I edit my own, very old work? I have about a hundred pages of a novel I wrote in high school, I like the concept behind the writing but I'm finding it extremely difficult to go
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: Write to the finish, or edit as you go? Someone asked this question in another forum, and I thought I'd bounce it around in here to see what kind of responses we get. If you are working
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: Submitting a novel for publication: do editors still expect Courier font? About ten years ago an agent told me not to submit manuscripts in fonts other than Courier (or Courier New) and to
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: What tools do you use for your writing journal? I usually keep a notepad and pen with me at all times. So, if I'm out thinking about a story and a scene or a bit of dialogue comes to
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: When editing for a person, how much can be changed? The context is a technical document that is written by one person and then sent out for review by others. The reviewers change word tense,
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: Should I release my novel now... or miss a golden opportunity? I just finished writing the first draft of my novel. (BTW, this is my first) As luck would have it, something just popped up
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: Writing a trilogy and editing I planned out to write a trilogy and the first draft of book one is now completed. I want to know if I should edit this draft before starting on the second
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: How much value do publishers and editors place on informative/educational content in fiction stories? I have heard people say that ‘good stories are educational as well as entertaining’. But
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: Editing tools on the go I've just started editing my novel. For the drafting I had done most of the work on a phone, as I wanted to make the most of the daily commute. This worked well
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: The psychology of finishing a piece of fiction I have a psychological oddity when it comes to my own writing (particularly fiction, and particularly longer work). Obviously it may just be a
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: Knowing when to disobey the advice of grammar software When writing I try to be my own editor in order to improve the quality of what I write. When I feel happy I use Hemingway to further
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