7 Deadly Myths and 3 Inspired Truths About Book Editing
Excerpt from the HuffingtonPost article:"Here’s the fact: if you want your book to be strong, clean, professional, and appealing, for it to affect the
readers as you want it to affect them, you need to have it professionally edited. There’s never been a text written that didn’t need editing. By the
time you’ve spent weeks, months, or years on a project, you can’t see the words any more. You can see the ideas -- the concepts, arguments, plot, and
characters -- but not every word that’s on the page, or that isn’t, or where there are gaping holes in logic or jumps in style. An editor will. It’s
what they’re paid to do."
Love and stuff,
Michy ~~Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations~~
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