Tag Archives: punctuation

The Importance of the Copy Edit

Posted on July 31, 2017 by Linda W. Yezak

A friend is doing a massive favor for me and the other authors of a collection we’ve already released. She’s doing the copy edit we should’ve done to begin with. Even though I had already edited the bulk of the … Continue reading →

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Writer’s Tools–Use ‘Em Right

Posted on April 6, 2016 by Linda W. Yezak

In “Five Quick Steps Toward More Mature Writing,” I mentioned that ellipses, dashes, semicolons, colons, and italic are “specialty tools” to be used infrequently so as not to dilute their effectiveness. Certain sentence structures fall in the category of “specialty tools,” … Continue reading →

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Five Quick Steps Toward More Mature Writing

Posted on March 14, 2016 by Linda W. Yezak

Whenever I see a new client’s manuscript, I can tell almost instantly how mature the writing is just by flipping through a few pages. How? Because there are things that newbies do almost universally. But the good news is, of all … Continue reading →