SLOG – Editing 4

Excerpt from Success, Your Path to a Successful Book by Maralyn D. Hill and Brenda C. Hill. You may have a friend or a family member that is an English teacher who offers to read your manuscript. That is ok, but don’t have that person be your final editor. Money spent on a professional editor is...

SLOG – Editing 2

Excerpt from Success, Your Path to a Successful Book. by Maralyn D. Hill and Brenda C. Hill. Another favorite author, whom we urge all new writers to read early in the process, is Natalie Goldberg. Her famous book, Writing Down the Bones, known as bones in the writing industry, is, to us, The Bible. Here is...

SLOG – Editing 1

Excerpt from Success, Your Path to a Successful Book by Maralyn D. Hill and Brenda C. Hill. One of the best rules of editing we learned from our good friend and teacher at the Santa Barbara Writer’s Conference, Cork Millner (yes, he writes books on wine): Do not edit while writing. You can go...

SLOG Editing and Formatting

This excerpt is from Success, Your Path to a Successful Book by Maralyn D. Hill and Brenda C. Hill “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” -Aldous Huxley It is difficult for all of us to keep up with the latest trends and rules of grammar. Rules change with the times. Although we...

SLOG – Research for Writing 4

This excerpt is from $uccess, Your Path to a Successful Book by Maralyn D. Hill and Brenda C. Hill. A book that is good reading and can fill in some facts for you is American History: The New York Public Library Book of Answers, by Melinda Corey and George Ochoa. It is full of unusual and entertaining...