Philosophy for Writing & Editing Your Life
12 Editing Solutions When Your Writing Isn’t Good Enough
Doubt.
If you’re a writer, the d-word plagues you daily.
Is your writing good enough? Is your writing ever going to be good enough?
Writing confidently is more than just feeling good about the thoughts that exit your brain and form neatly arranged words in a document.
To remove doubt, old-fashioned TLC has to be an integral part of your artistic lifestyle.
Here are 12 editing solutions that help you care for yourself and your writing. [Click to continue ... ]
Book Review: ‘You Are a Writer’ by Jeff Goins
“Writing is mostly a mind game. It’s about tricking yourself into becoming who you are. If you do this long enough, you begin to believe it. And pretty soon, you start acting like it.” ~ Jeff Goins
I started sporadically reading GoinsWriter sometime last year. I liked Jeff’s guest posts on other blogs but wasn’t an avid follower of his work.
Around the first of this year, I did a little Google Reader clean up and decided to subscribe to Jeff’s blog when I ditched some old sites that no longer interested me. It soon became one of my daily favorites.
If you’re an artist who’s simultaneously bubbling with passion and grounded in reality, you’ll dig Jeff. He’s my kind of writer. [Click to continue ... ]
Your Ultimate Online Proofreading Guide for Better Writing
Writing, editing, and proofreading are interconnected activities in the web of transcribed communication.
You can overcome creative standstills if you look at editing and proofreading as a safety net.
Feel free to write absurd, nonsensical musings and tangents. Don’t worry—it can all be fixed later.
However, many writers feel overwhelmed when they have to resolve rough drafts.
It’s a pain to review text that already makes sense to you.
My new free ebook, Revision Fairy Tales: Your Ultimate Online Proofreading Guide for Better Writing, covers low-stress ways to revise and correct your work. Ensure concepts that you take for granted also make sense to your audience.
You improve your writing skills when you proofread strategically.
After reading the ebook, you won’t look at proofreading the same way again.
The 30-page PDF is Edition I of a new series. [Click to continue ... ]
Online proofreading services