Depending on the level of editing your manuscript has undergone, your editor will often leave comments for you on the right-hand side of your manuscript using Word’s Comment feature. You may also find it useful to leave comments for your editor prior to submitting your manuscript if you have a specific question you want them to address. (more…)
After I’ve finished an editing job using Word’s Track Changes and sent it back to the author, the question I am asked most often is “So, how do I review this thing?” My first suggestion is always to go through the document first and reject the suggested changes you do not want to accept so that you can accept all the ones you do with one click. (more…)
One of the first things that you have to decide when writing a story is the narrative point of view. If you’re unfamiliar with this concept, you can think of point of view as the narrator’s relationship to the story. (more…)
We all have our pet peeves when it comes to grammar, and mine, ladies and gentlemen, is known as the Oxford comma. If you’re a grammar nerd like me, you’ve probably heard of the great Oxford comma debate. But if you’re not, then you might just know that grammarians argue about it. So, what exactly is the Oxford comma? The Oxford comma is just another name for the serial comma, the comma that comes before the final “and” in a series.