You’ve revised, tweaked, and touched-up the piece you’re writing. But how do you know when your work is finally finished and ready to be submitted? Does it take one draft…or three…or ten? Too often in their quest to create the perfect story, essay, poem, or book,...
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Today, Kory Stamper is here with us from Merriam-Webster Inc. to give us a little peek into the life of a lexicographer. Merriam-Webster has been teaching us how to spell correctly (and use the right word at the right time) since 1828! CONTEST: Leave a comment below...
Be Honest: 5 Self-Editing Tips For Increased Objectivity
It can be hard to see our own writing for what it is. We think it’s brilliant or terrible. It’s overdone or underdone. It’s exactly right and not what we’re going for at all. There are a lot of emotions wrapped up in how we writers look at our own work. And those...
The Power Of Pruning: 5 Tips For Editing Poems Down To Size
People love long poems. There are great, epic, long poems in the world. That said, Writer’s Relief oversees many poetry submissions over the course of a year, and this remains true: Shorter poems seem to be more readily picked up by editors than longer poems. In...
Think Like A Doctor: Diagnose And Cure What Ails Your Book
One of the most important skills you can have as a writer is the ability to detach yourself from your work and diagnose its weaknesses objectively—as if you were a doctor examining a patient. We all get married to a word, a turn of a phrase, a paragraph that is...
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