Tag: Editing

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    Great editors may be worth their weight in antimatter

    New York Times best-selling, self-published author Hugh Howey says, “Invest in your book with editing and great cover art.”

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    The birth of a child called Prose

    For an author, the job of being the parent of Prose means a never ending job.

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    The NEED to Edit – Part 6/6

    The focus of the public schools is reading literacy—not editing literacy and reaching grade-level reading literacy for more than half of the students is a challenge.

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    The NEED to Edit – Part 3/6

    The other choice is to edit your own work with some help from friends as I did.

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    The NEED to Edit – Part 2/6

    If the avid reader is distracted by too many mistakes, do not expect this audience to be forgiving.

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    The NEED to Edit – Part 1/6

    Writing, revising and editing are part and parcel of an author’s work, especially if she doesn’t have a contract with a traditional publisher.

  • Lloyd Lofthouse

    The Need to Edit – (Viewed as Single Page)

    Most authors may have editing skills similar to Thomas Wolfe, who wrote longhand without the use of punctuation in addition to other mistakes that his editor, Max Perkins, fixed as he edited Wolfe’s work.