Our Top Posts of 2015
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Since many of you will spend a large portion of your week twiddling your thumbs at an airport gate, or sitting for hours in a plane on the motherf*cking tarmac, we figured this would be a good time to offer not just one blog post, but many. Because what else are you going to do? (One good answer: Write!)
The following are links to some of our top blog posts from 2015, based on page views and rich interaction and whatnot. If you’re a regular reader, you’ve likely seen many of these. Consider it a clip show. If you aren’t a regular reader, well, why the hell aren’t you?
Happy holidays, WriteByNighters! And safe travels.
Finding a Writing Space in Your Home:
“There will be obstacles—there always are—but with a little thought and experimentation, you should be able to discover or construct a writing space that works for you.”
The Importance of — gulp! — Reading Your Writing Aloud:
“While we strongly encourage you to hire a professional copyeditor when your manuscript is ready (of course we do —copyediting is one of our offerings) … we want to suggest a great strategy to help you edit your own copy.”
Stop Starting and Start Finishing Your Writing:
“Hello, my name is Justine, and I’m a starter.”
8 Differences Between a Writing Coach and a Football Coach:
“A writing coach will never force you to shower against your will.”
A Professional Proofreader’s Margin of Error:
“There are a lot of folks out there who call themselves professional proofreaders, but that doesn’t make it so. Just because I say I’m a shoe doesn’t make me a shoe.”
Visualization Exercises For Writers:
“If your bad writing days are beginning to pile up like so much jetsam and/or flotsam, it might be time to step away from your WIP for a moment and imagine it as a WIB (Work-in-Bookstore) instead.”
What Kind of Editing Do I Need?:
“Writers have a lot of editorial terms thrown at them — top or top-down, big picture, line, front, stylistic, substantive — but some of these are redundant, and a few are even supremely unhelpful. So how is a writer supposed to know what type of editing he or she needs?”
Manuscript Preparation: How to Do it Right:
“Finally, you read those magical words: The End. Now what?”
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