Fix Your Damn Book! Contributor(s): Baldwin, James Osiris (Author) |
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ISBN: 1365141470 ISBN-13: 9781365141478 Publisher: Lulu.com OUR PRICE: $31.21 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Style Manuals - Reference |
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6" W x 9" (1.21 lbs) 286 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Fix Your Damn Book is a self-help manual for writers who have finished a manuscript - a novel, novella, short story, or serial - and who want to self-edit their work to a professional standard and get it on the market. In this instructional and occasionally hilarious book, James Osiris Baldwin - an author and editor with over 8 years of experience as a freelance and staff editor - explains his technique for painlessly and successfully polishing your manuscript to a perfect glow. Fix Your Damn Book will guide you through: - The seven essential components of successful editing - Getting into the right headspace to edit your own work - Objectively diagnosing problems in your manuscript - The secrets of developmental editing and line editing - Hacks for sharpening your story, character, and dialogue - Grammar, spelling, punctuation, passive voice and tense - Recruiting and making the most out of your first readers - Proofreading and publishing your finished book |