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    Editor's Notebook
    Editor's Notebook
    Editor's Notebook
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    Editor's Notebook

    By Kalifer Deil

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    This is a guide to help writers edit their own works. It is often very difficult to find many of your own errors. This guide will provide a systematic approach that if followed diligently will get most of them, prepare for e-publishing and improve style as well. Editors are expensive for self publishers to use so I developed this guide to help me do my own editing.

    I was a daydreamer in school and paid little attention to my teachers which ultimately lead me to an engineering career. There I could get by with an elementary grasp of the English language but I needed far more to tell stories that I felt compelled to tell. Hence, this book is a product of that evolution.
    Squidoo has this book near the top of the list for free ebooks on writing.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKalifer Deil
    Release dateNov 2, 2010
    ISBN9781458085191
    Editor's Notebook
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    Kalifer Deil

    Kalifer Deil is the pen name of Gary Feierbach a Silicon Valley computer software and hardware engineer. His technical publications are under Gary Feierbach. All others are under Kalifer Deil. He has a BA in Physics and Mathematics and an MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.He has worked on computer architecture, design, engineering management, and systems and application software for NASA, Intergraph, Sun and Apple.He has only recently devoted most of his time to writing. Most of his works would be classified as hard science fiction. Hopefully it is in the spirit of Issac Asimov but generally a bit more gritty and less inhibited. Please visit his website http://www.kaliferdeil.com for some free stories, poems and other oddities or go to http://www.speculativescience.com for more information

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      Editor's Notebook - Kalifer Deil

      Editor’s Notebook

      Speculative Sciences Publishing at Smashwords

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      Thank you for downloading this free ebook. You are welcome to share it with your friends. This ebook may be reproduced, copied and distributed for noncommercial purposes, provided the ebook remains in its complete original form. If you enjoyed this ebook, please return to Smashwords.com to discover other works by this author. Thank you for your support.

      6/24/2012 Revision Notes

      This revision has replaced some whiches with thats and has removed a comma before an ellipses to satisfy some grammar purists. It isn’t always the case that common usage becomes proper grammar after some period of time but frequently it does. Perhaps I didn’t wait long enough or was overzealous in reducing my use of the word that.

      1/20/2012 Revision Notes

      Some corrections thanks to David King. Improved some formatting and changed to three dot ellipses without internal spaces but a before and after space because it looks cleaner.

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      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Consistency in Plot and Characters

      Story Facts Check

      ebook No No’s

      Software Checking

      Check Verb Tenses

      Check Voices

      Check Punctuation

      Spell Checking

      Contractions

      Reading for Errors

      Cover Art

      That That Word

      Common Word Usage Problems

      Subjunctive ‘to be’ Usage

      Who vs. Whom

      Doubling words

      Capitalization

      Compound Words

      Miscellaneous Words

      Typos

      No Such Word

      Hyperlinking Chapters

      Editing Checkoff List

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      Introduction

      Writing as a hobby or as a job can be very rewarding but seldom monetarily. You do it because you feel you have something to say. You may not ever desire to publish it for others to read except family and friends. Even in this case you will want to edit what you write to make it a pleasure for those who will read it, even if it’s a very limited audience.

      If you’re writing to publish then you must have your work edited.

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