When I contacted Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of the How To Do It Frugally series, to contribute to WNFIN again this year, I expected a post on marketing. I know her for her book The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won’t. Instead she sent me a post on editing. When I asked [...]
Now that you are well into your Write Nonfiction in November (WNFIN) project, let’s take some time to focus on writing well. While the National Novel Writing (NaNoWriMo) folks say their “contest” revolves around writing any 50,000 words–not necessarily “good” words–in 30 days, here at WNFIN we are looking for good words, well-written words. Hopefully, [...]
I have been accused of being an old-fashioned editor. I edit or correct grammar and punctuation the way I’ve always done it—the way I learned grammar long ago in high school. I also typically follow the AP Stylebook I had to use in college as a magazine journalism major. I do, however, pull out other [...]
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