Category: writing problems

7 tips for self-editing your book — Helena Fairfax

by Deana Coddaire, posted in Editing help, writing, Writing advice, writing problems

It’s time for this month’s authors’ Round Robin, and author Robin Courtright has set us another excellent topic… How do you self-edit your books before submitting or publishing? When I wrote my first novel I knew very little about the editing process. In my naivety, I thought editing involved checking for spelling mistakes and picking […] … Continue reading 7 tips for self-editing your book — Helena Fairfax

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Editing Your Draft – Crutch Words — Author Don Massenzio

by Deana Coddaire, posted in Editing help, writing, Writing advice, writing problems

I am currently hard at work editing my 90K+ collection of short stories that will be published soon. As I go through this work and apply some of the things that I’ve learned editing other authors’ works, I found that I have some crutch words. In public speaking, crutch words are things like ‘um’ or […] … Continue reading Editing Your Draft – Crutch Words — Author Don Massenzio

How To Be An Expert Typo Hunter — K.M. Allan

by Deana Coddaire, posted in Editing help, proofreading, typos, writing, Writing advice, writing problems

You’ve got to be a lot of things when you’re a writer. Not only do you need to craft characters and worlds from nothing, bring together a cohesive story, and take hundreds of random words and arrange them into sentences that make sense, you also need to check those sentences for mistakes. But when you’ve […] … Continue reading How To Be An Expert Typo Hunter — K.M. Allan