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The Editing Process The editing process is made up of a number of steps to bring your writing from first thought to final publication. These steps depend on the genre of writing and the preferred style guide you’ll be using. A fiction novel is edited differently than poetry and academic writing, and...

Whether you write nonfiction novels, white papers for peer review, or grant proposals, at some point in your writing career, you’re going to need to quote someone else’s work. Even a blog on cooking might have references to someone else’s recipe. Claiming something as your original idea when it’s actually...

When an author finishes a draft copy of their text, whether it be a manuscript, an essay, a thesis, or a short story, to ensure an accurate and improved final version, they will need to go back through it and make a few changes. This process is known as editing, but the words revise and edit are often...

A key question to ask when writing your book is ‘who gets to tell the story?’ Whose perspective are you writing from? Most books you come across are written in either the first or third person. While editors don’t see eye to eye on many topics, there is one rule that many tend to agree on: don’t write...

A novel is a long, narrative work of fiction. It is written in literary prose that entertains and tells a contribed story with a chain of events that includes characters, setting, dialogue, plot, conflict, climax and some kind of resolution. It can instruct or divert the reader, or both. A novel is presented...