Audience Copy Copy Editor Prose 
Top Content Consulting
AUGUST 16, 2022
This will help polish up your prose and allow your work to shine. Developmental editing , substantive editing , line editing , and copy editing each tackle a specific problem or concern with your writing. Editors have extensive tools and training that, when properly wielded, will make your prose sing. What is editing?
The Creative Penn
JULY 31, 2023
And I was reading through these, and at the time I was a nonfiction proofreader and copy editor, sorting out other people's work, and I was reading these stories just going like these are—like I didn't understand the medium of short stories very well, and obviously, if you're going to start anywhere, start with Stephen King.
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The Subversive Copy Editor
AUGUST 20, 2021
You ignore those sorts of “rules” at the risk of losing your audience. I’m also convinced that it produces unoriginal prose that’s much stiffer and more cramped. And then there are also language “rules,” the kind I covered in Wordcraft. Some of those are indeed spurious, such as the rule against split infinitives.
ProBlogger
APRIL 10, 2011
Not so much functionally—there are people who can help you write cleaner prose. I hire a copy editor to clean up my posts, and while the ideas, connections, turns of phrase, overall structure and layout are mine, it still feels inauthentic. Write with a copy editor. So here’s my response. Persistence pays.
The Creative Penn
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
That can be good, in one way, because you do have time to really reflect and dig deep, and write better prose, months and months of structural edits, like three or four versions of it. audience as well? Because not only is it my schedule, it's their editor's schedule, and the line editor, the copy editor, each person, their schedule.
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