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Write Better: Get Another View

Another view.  We must have other eyes on our manuscripts no matter how painful the corrections and comments.  It’s too easy to write alone, get lost in our own words, not see ambiguity, sentence weaknesses, lack of clarity.  We have to seek constructive criticism.  Without it, we can’t possibly get better. I hope someone reading this post is a high school […]

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Write chapter summaries as you draft

I’ve always hated to write summaries, but in working on my current project,  I actually found them useful.  Instead of waiting till the final draft to tackle the dreaded task, I started writing a summary as I finished each chapter.  But I didn’t begin to do this until I was more than half way through

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