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See What a Beta Reader Can Do For You

10/31/2019

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“You’re not done with a book until you pass it to another reader.” Donalyn Miller

We spend so much time on our own manuscripts that we can’t see them objectively — no matter how diligently we self-edit. We create anticipation or an expectation early in the book but forget to deliver on it. We describe events in a way that is clear to us. However, they are not necessarily clear to a reader who can’t see the pictures in our head. We leave out vital steps in an explanation and don’t realize it, because we know what we mean. The characters in our books are not convincing, because we know them so well. We simply don’t always realize we haven’t developed them as thoroughly as we thought when we committed them to paper.
                 This is why we need a beta reader. Click Here to learn more!
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One Last Go Over

10/24/2019

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You’re Ready for One Last Go Over of Your Novel. You’ve finished the writing, the rewriting, the editing and the polishing. So what’s next?
You’ve been through your manuscript front to back and back to front and weeded out and added in.
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Editing Punctuation in Novels: Commas, Semi-colons, Colons, Apostrophes and Dashes

10/17/2019

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Most writers know about when to use a period, a question mark, and exclamation point. Be sure that every sentence has one of those three at the end.  Back on April 29ths post, we went over how to punctuate dialogue. I am not going to go over that again here, but you should probably review that now as well. In addition, go through and make sure you didn’t miss any of your quotation marks. Like the previous forms of punctuation, commas, semi-colons, colons, apostrophes, and dashes indicate added emphasis, an interruption, or an abrupt change of thought. Experienced writers know that these marks are not interchangeable. Click Here to see when to use each one. 
 
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Problematic Homophones

10/10/2019

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If there is one area where I am apt to be a member of the grammar police, it would be in the area of homophones. I hate it when a writer uses there when they really should be using they’re or their.
One homophone that we recently disagreed about at work was pore and pour. Most of us thought that “we poured over material” as we studied. However, one person argued that we should have used the word “pored”. We looked it up on google and I found four sources that said the word was pored, not poured. We pour milk over our cereal, but this word has nothing to do with studying. Click Here are numerous homophones to check and determined that you have used the correct word. 
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Correct Spelling in Your Novel

10/3/2019

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This week we are identifying and replacing spelling errors. Now is a good time to run a spell check to see find words that are spelled wrong or you have written using British spellings rather than American spellings (or visa versa if you’re aiming to sell to British audiences). You wouldn’t want to insult your reader (or publisher!) with the wrong gray or grey. Now’s a good time to run your spellcheck over your manuscript before going onto the next steps. Click Here to Move On
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    Cygnet Brown is the Author of The Locket Saga. The current five volumes Include:
    When God Turned his Head,  Soldiers Don't Cry
    Coward's Solace,  Sailing Under the Black Flag, In the Shadow of the Mill Pond, and T
    he Anvil. She is currently working on the Seventh book: Two Rivers. T She also has published nonfiction books Simply Vegetable Gardening, Help from Kelp, Using Diatomaceous Earth around the House and Yard, Living Today, the Power of Now and Write a Book and Ignite Your Business.

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