Eliminating Additional Extras V and VI
By Annette Rey
Writers should strive for knowledge wherever it leads, and work hard to apply that knowledge. The search can be fun, just as writing can be fun. When you have the tools, the job is made easier.
So, let’s jump into the final post of this series and examine what publishers do NOT want to see in our work.
Eliminating Additional Extras III and IV
By Annette Rey
Writers are faced with many challenges in producing work, and with post-production issues. The life of the writer is a perpetual state of learning – or should be. To address, in part, both of these issues, today’s subjects in the Ridding Your Work of Redundancies series are verbosity and prolixity.
Let’s look at what publishers would like NOT to see in our work.
Eliminating Additional Extras II
By Annette Rey
Everyone has specific ways of communicating, it’s one of the facets that makes us individuals. Most of us are not professorial in our speech and insert idiosyncratic expressions into our writing. These expressions may be considered unwanted in the written word.
You want to perfect your craft and want to present your work error-free. How can you do that without knowing the rules?
Here’s help.
Eliminating Additional Extras
By Annette Rey
Is your written work heavy with too many words?
As the subtitle suggests, writers unintentionally include unnecessary words in their first draft. During the editing process, your work needs to be made concise without sacrificing your original meaning.
Let’s look at one of the ways we add superfluous words and the remedy for it.
Writer's Block No More 