For some writers, grammar comes naturally. For the rest of us, there’s Grammar Girl. One of the advantages of copy-editing your own work, even if it’s preliminary to a professional copy editor, is that once you learn the rules behind your errors, you are less likely to repeat them in […]
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**There are at least three copy errors in this post. Can you find them all?** You’ve drafted your book. You’ve rewritten your book (possibly more than once). You’ve revised your book from every angle. You’ve pored over each sentence in a rigorous line edit, making sure the mood, voice, word […]
As you’ve probably gathered from the last few posts, I tend to write pretty casually while I draft and do a lot of refining of language during line editing. While I don’t mind line editing, my goal is always to become a better drafter. The less clean-up I have to […]
Some of you may have noticed, a million years ago when I made my latest TIWIK post, I posted #64, then went straight on to #66, my last TIWIK post. I’ve said it before and I’m sure I’ll say it again: I’m a writer, not a mathematician. Clearly, the universe […]
Reading is not an individual act, but a collaboration between the writer and the reader. The reader’s job is to take the words on the page and create visual images within their imaginations. The writer’s job is to put the right images on the page in the first place, so […]
Words. The English language has a lot of them. Estimated to be over a million, in fact. To further complicate matters for the writer, many words in our language seem to overlap and mean the same thing. However, different words with similar meanings can have dramatically different effects on your […]