
Presented, courtesy of my good friend and retired Professional Book Editor, Susan Uttendorfsky,
Susan
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EDITING 101: 01 – Introduction and ‘Redundancies’
EDITING 101: 02 – Description Depression
EDITING 101: 03 – THAT’s the Problem in Revising
EDITING 101: 04 – Character Name Consistency
EDITING 101: 05 – General Plurals
EDITING 101: 06 – He Said / She Said: Dialogue Tags
EDITING 101: 07 – Consecutive Versus Concurrent Action
EDITING 101: 08 – Using Song Lyrics in your Manuscript
EDITING 101: 09 – Cutting “ly” Adverbs and Enhancing Scenes
EDITING 101: 10 – What Happens When You Die? – NOT in a Metaphysical sense
EDITING 101: 11 – Using a Thesaurus
EDITING 101: 12 – Directions and Impossibilities
EDITING 101: 13 – Self-Editing Part 1
EDITING 101: 14 – Self-Editing Part 2
EDITING 101: 15 – Self-Editing Part 3
EDITING 101: 16 – Homonyms, Homographs, and Homophones
EDITING 101: 17 – Powerful Protagonists
EDITING 101: 18 – Writer’s Block
EDITING 101: 19 – Sentence Fragments
EDITING 101: 20 – Dashes
EDITING 101: 21 – Plotting
EDITING 101: 22 – Using Registered Trademarks and Brand Names
EDITING 101: 23 – Tenses
EDITING 101: 24 – Split Infinitives and Dangling Participles
EDITING 101: 25 – Style Guides for Fiction
EDITING 101: 26 – POV Head Hopping
EDITING 101: 27 – Semicolons
EDITING 101: 28 – Emphasizing
EDITING 101: 29 – Types of Point of View
EDITING 101: 30 – Ellipses
EDITING 101: 31 – Referring to Technology in Your Writing
EDITING 101: 32 – Sentence Length
EDITING 101: 33 – Research – How Much is Enough or How Much is Too Much?
EDITING 101: 34 – When to use “which” or “that”?
EDITING 101: 35 – Using the five senses
EDITING 101: 36 – Removing Filter Words
EDITING 101: 37 – Hiring Professionals, Part 1
EDITING 101: 38 – Hiring Professionals, Part 2
EDITING 101: 39 – Writing Your Synopsis and Back Cover Blurbs
EDITING 101: 40 – Editing Myths
EDITING 101: 41 – Using the Back of your Book Effectively
EDITING 101: 42 – Who, Whom, and other Word Misuses
EDITING 101: 43 – Punctuating Prepositional and Appositive Phrases
EDITING 101: 44 – Using Beta Readers
EDITING 101: 45 – Do All Your Characters Sound Alike?
EDITING 101: 46 – Recognizing Publishing Scams
EDITING 101: 47 – Dangling Modifiers
EDITING 101: 48 – Using Quotes in Your Book and Research Tips – Part 1
EDITING 101: 49 – Using Quotes in Your Book and Research Tips – Part 2
EDITING 101: 50 – Using Another Language in Your Manuscript
EDITING 101: 51 – Identifying Your Book’s Goal
EDITING 101: 52 – Adjectives – and the Commas That Go With Them
EDITING 101: 53 – Internet Tracking
EDITING 101: 54 – Sharing Content, Copyrights, and Permissions – Part 1
EDITING 101: 55 – Sharing Content, Copyrights, and Permissions – Part 2
EDITING 101: 56 – ‘Shoulda Woulda Coulda’
EDITING 101: 57 – Comma Splice Blues
EDITING 101: 58 – Showing Character Emotion
EDITING 101: 59 – Character Profiles
EDITING 101: 60 – Deleted Material
EDITING 101: 61 – Passive Voice versus Passive Verbs
EDITING 101: 62 – Using the Wrong Song Lyrics
EDITING 101: 63 – Are you overwhelming your social media followers?
EDITING 101: 64 – Story Organisation
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Thanks for reblogging, Lea 🤗❤️🤗
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My pleasure Chris. Alas, I’m still in that rough draft stage…
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Good Luck with it, Lea 🤗
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Thank you Chris. 😊
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Thanks for linking back to Susan’s Editing 101 series index, Stevie 😀
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Wonderful, thank you, have bookmarked this page. xxx
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Great, Adele 😀
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Thanks, Adele! 😀
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You’re welcome. 🙂
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Thanks for sharing, Malia Ann ❤
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You’re welcome, Chris! 🙂 ❤
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Gracias, mi amiga! ❤
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De nada, Chica! 🙂 ❤
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Thank you so much Chris for making all these links available on one page. And thanks Susan for all your great info. Shared! And bookmarked! 🙂
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Welcome, Debby 😀
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Thank you! ❤
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No, thank YOU Susan. 🙂 ❤
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Reblogged this on Author Don Massenzio and commented:
Check out this great post from Adirondack Editing via The Story Reading Ape Blog with links to valuable editing advice
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Many thanks for re-blogging, Don 😀
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You’re welcome
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Tanks sew mulch, Don! ❤
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