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Tanya Mykhaylychenko

How to Offer Your Authors Positive Feedback

October 5, 2021 by Tanya Mykhaylychenko | 1 Comment on How to Offer Your Authors Positive Feedback

Recognizing and affirming your clients’ strengths is one of the best ways to create a collaborative partnership, encourage their learning and boost their confidence. This comes in especially handy if you work with ESL authors, job seekers, new authors or anyone who is entering a new genre or role. Trusting their text or important document […]

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Suzanne Bowness

Teaching Editing

March 9, 2021 by Suzanne Bowness | Leave a Comment

Explaining your craft can help clarify editing for both newcomers and clients It’s one thing to have fantastic editorial skills, to know through years of reading, then training, then working, when a sentence sounds right or a piece flows nicely. But if you’re looking to take your communications to the next level, challenge yourself to […]

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Melva McLean

An Editor in a Three-Day Writer’s Boot Camp, Part 3

September 16, 2014 by Melva McLean | 2 Comments on An Editor in a Three-Day Writer’s Boot Camp, Part 3

Later that afternoon, I arrived home and plunked myself down in front of a blank screen. It felt like I’d joined the ranks of such writers as Hemingway and Faulkner, Ludlum and Michener, and many others who’d lost manuscripts and had to start over from scratch. Of course, in this day and age, you don’t […]

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An Editor in a Three-Day Writer’s Boot Camp, Day 2

August 12, 2014 by Melva McLean | Leave a Comment

In every good boot camp movie there’s a scene where a tough army trainer leaves the rebellious recruit out in the cold and rain all night or makes them do 1,000 pushups. This is one way to make the recruit begin to sacrifice ego. The other short story boot camp recruits and I didn’t have […]

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An Editor in a Three-Day Writer’s Boot Camp, Day 1

July 15, 2014 by Melva McLean | 1 Comment on An Editor in a Three-Day Writer’s Boot Camp, Day 1

Novelist’s Boot Camp Travel Writing Boot Camp Dissertation Writing Boot Camp Resume Writing Boot Camp Children’s Picture Book Boot Camp Okay, STOP. Right there! Seriously? What could be less suited to boot camp than a kid’s picture book? What’s next? And when did the words “boot camp,” i.e., “a military training camp for new recruits, […]

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