Copied from the blog. I've been dying to (and trying to) write this post for a month. You know how it is. December = holidays + end-of-year-tax-queasiness + noticeable lack of sunlight. End result,...
I've had a rough few weeks so I wrote this. Then I sat down and wrote 3000 words in three straight hours. :-) Funny how life is. Hope everyone has a nice weekend!
I’m almost done doing a developmental edit on a memoir. The feedback the writer had received from readers and agents was that the manuscript didn’t “flow.” I read the manuscript and sent it back to...
I'm linking my recent Blog Critics article, that I also reposted on my own blog. The link to Big Al is also included. In the meantime, I received (through the backdoor, so to speak) a...
I work as a developmental editor. I also do line editing, sometimes also called copy editing. The latter involves cleaning up your grammar and punctuation and strengthening your sentences. However, today I want to talk...