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Improve Your Writing Skills. Put Your Writing on a Diet.

February 14, 2014 by Kathy Steffen 1 Comment
A Diet Program for your Writing

You want the essence of your writing to come through, but needless words and phrases can get in the way and weigh down your prose. Solution: put your writing on a five-step diet.

Posted in: Revision, Writing Craft, Writing Tips Tagged: editing, revision, writing tips

How to Revise: Six Steps to Story Strength

September 19, 2012 by Kathy Steffen 9 Comments

Any of the following will cause story-strength fail. Fix them and your story will engage your reader through the end of your book and beyond.

Posted in: Revision, Writing Craft Tagged: editing, novel writing, revision

Review of online grammar writing tool: Grammarly

November 7, 2011 by Rachel Berens-VanHeest 3 Comments
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Grammarly – A Review Grammarly is a site that lets you upload sections of your writing to have them checked for grammar, punctuation, style, etc. How Does It Work? Grammarly is very easy to use. Simply copy the text you’d like to analyze and paste it into the window. Select the type of writing that … [Read more…]

Posted in: Online Writing Tools, Writing Tools Tagged: amwriting, editing, grammar, online wrting tools, revision, web sites for writers, writing tools

That vs Which

October 24, 2011 by Rachel Berens-VanHeest 3 Comments
grammar

While both “that” and “which” can be used in a variety of ways, they are not, in fact, interchangeable. So let’s take a look at “that” and “which” and see if we can figure out how to use them correctly.

Posted in: Grammar, Writing Craft Tagged: editing, grammar, that or which, that vesus which

Why do you need a freelance editor?

October 5, 2011 by Guest Post 2 Comments
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By Tanya Saari You’ve written a book, maybe more than one. You may have unsuccessfully attempted taking the traditional print publisher route, or you may have decided that you want to strike out on your own. Whatever the reason, before you head to the post office, or slap that sucker up on Amazon or some … [Read more…]

Posted in: Indie Publishing, Writing Business Tagged: editing, indie publishing, self-publishing
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