editing

How Does a Professional Editor Work with a Writer?

Posted by on December 18, 2009 at 11:51 pm

I spend a lot of my time working as a freelance nonfiction editor. Although I do work with many writers who have had their work edited by professional editors before, I probably work with more writers who have never encountered the editing process with anyone other than a writing buddy, someone in their writing group, [...]

A Writer’s Check List for Finished Written Work

Posted by on November 29, 2009 at 2:01 am

Tomorrow marks the end of the Write Nonfiction in November 2009. I had one more guest blog post, but it consisted of more advice about promoting books. I figured we did enough of that for one month. Instead, I though I’d offer you my check list for finished work. This seems appropriate since you should [...]

Editing IS Marketing: Boning Up on First Impressions

Posted by on November 13, 2009 at 2:00 am

Since we are on the topic of editing (see yesterday’s post), I thought we should follow that line of thinking into another area: marketing. This gives us another way to look at what we do when we edit our work or have professional editors help us polish our writing. To do this, I’ve asked Carolyn [...]