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Month: January 2018

What editing looks like

January 8, 2018

Too many people think an editor is like the guy who details your car. He cleans up the grammar and punctuation and makes it all look shiny. Editors do some of that, but it comes at the very end. Fixing punctuation and spelling really is cleanup work. A good editor is more like a coach. … More What editing looks like

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