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Tips for checking your own writing: Editor's Notes #211 May 31, 2016 |
Hello, and edit with utter discipline. --Erica Jong In this issue: 1. Tips for checking your own writing 2. Tickled my funnybone 3. Interesting Web site 4. Writing prompt 1. Tips for checking your own writing The biggest reason it is best to have someone else edit your work is that no one but you lives in your brain. Everyone else can easily misunderstand you, and a good editor points out what might trip up your readers. Getting out of your own head even a little, however, lets you find some problems in your writing you may not otherwise find. Here are some little tricks to fool your mind into thinking differently about what you have written.
After you've done all you can with your own writing, you are ready for an editor. PS. I'm an editor. Did you know you can take me for a trial edit? https://www.writershelper.com/sample-edit.html =========== 2.Tickled my funnybone From a church bulletin: Scouts are saving aluminum cans, bottles and other items to be recycled. Proceeds will be used to cripple children. =========== 3. Interesting Web site Click at random or carefully choose a book from the list. Either way, this site gives you a host of synopses. What do writers have to do? Write a synopsis of their own book. http://www.60secondrecap.com/reviews/ =========== 4. Writing prompt Choose a book you already know from the Interesting Web site link above, but don't click on the link yet. Write a synopsis of the book you've chosen. THEN click on the link and compare your synopsis with the one the site provides. Which do you prefer? Can you do better? =========== Join Writer's Helper Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/WritersHelperEditor Follow me on Twitter @AudreytheEditor Link on LinkedIn https://ca.linkedin.com/in/audreyowen (Email me first so I know how you know me.) =========== If you know a writer who would appreciate receiving Editor's Notes, forward this issue. If someone has passed this on to you, you can get your own free subscription by signing up at https://www.writershelper.com/newsletter.html |
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