ProBlogger

APRIL 10, 2011

Not so much functionally—there are people who can help you write cleaner prose. Once my new teacher noticed that I couldn’t take verbal instruction, spell, or abstractly conjugate, I was sent back down to the special education class, so I could graduate again, be promoted again, and be rejected, again. Write with a copy editor.

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The Creative Penn

JULY 31, 2023

Show Notes Tips for being a prolific writer Reasons why authors write darker books Scheduling separate times for writing different genres Creating a successful co-writing relationship What is a series of standalone? Writing was never something that I kind of foresaw as a career because I never thought it was achievable to become a writer.

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The Subversive Copy Editor

AUGUST 9, 2021

A writing coach or an editor might have wagged a finger at McBride and told him to kill that darling. It’s different from emerging to resent the copyeditor; appreciating the prose is part of reading for pleasure. A writer who deploys a long sentence had better know what they’re doing and why. It did distract me.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Georgina: Like a lot of authors that you've interviewed, I always wanted to be a writer as a child, and I was that kid with the desk in her bedroom, who would sit there and write books, even if it was just on notebook paper. We're all very much promoted the same way. Joanna: It's going to be interesting to talk to you today.

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