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7 Tips for Bloggers with Learning Disabilities

ProBlogger

As a first-grader in the early 80s I was placed in the special education classes: the “speds&#. Not so much functionally—there are people who can help you write cleaner prose. Write with a copy editor. Special thanks goes out to Heather Gaskill, social worker and copy editor extraordinaire. And blonde.

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Writing Fast, Collaboration, And Author Mindset With Daniel Willcocks

The Creative Penn

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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Different Traditional Publishing Experiences With Georgina Cross

The Creative Penn

You are clearly educated about the indie author business model and all of that side of things. 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. So, why did you decide to go the traditional route?