Some very good advice for newbie writers like me.
Kathryn Evans Author & Public Speaker
Space for where my book will one day sit!
I’ve done it, more-or-less. More of Me is finished – there’ll be the possibility of minor tweaks when the proof copies are ready but all the tough writing stuff is done, including the final stage, COPY EDITS.
My Facebook pals, and worse, my Twitter followers (why don’t they let you edit tweets? I never see my mistakes until it’s too late!) will suspect any copy editor of mine deserves a medal. My typos are disgraceful but I was very careful with my script. I spell checked until my fingers bled before I sent it off, but there were still things that came back needing correction. Some of which, for the first time since the edit process began, rankled.
It wasn’t the formatting things:
‘Speech marks’ should be “speech marks”.
Indentations should be
Indentations.
It was questions like this, “Why is Teva pretending to be dyslexic”:
She’s…
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Good advice for newbies and the those of us who have been at it for years. A good critique — one that points out the stuff needed to be worked on as well as the good things — is difficult even as it is helpful. But it all makes us stronger. I like her last comment of Put your chin up and listen. Good words to live by.
I so agree Habisha, I love the honesty of this article. Which is why I shared it 🙂