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How Fashionable is Your Writing?

How fashionable is your writing? Have you researched the fashions of your genres, and the fashions that cross genres in the writing industry? Read on for how fashions can help your book.

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Jill Garvin Durkin Jill Garvin Durkin

Welcome 2025! And Self-Editing Resources

Happy New Year!

Advertising Duck suggests that finding an editor can help you achieve your writing goals for the year.

Before you engage an editor though, self-editing is your next step after completing your manuscript!

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Taking Action

When writing from close points of view, particularly first-person narration, it’s important to distinguish (in the author’s head) the differences between conscious motions and unconscious or involuntary movements.

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Weasel Words and Waffling

It was Groundhog Day last week. I don’t have any editing stories about groundhogs, but I do want to talk about an arguably verminous aspect of writing: weasel words and waffling. Haven’t heard of these terms? Read on to find out.

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When did you last update your resumé or CV?

For a lot of people, updating their resumé one of those chores that only gets done when it’s absolutely necessary; specifically, when they’re applying for a new job, or their current employer is re-working the company website and asks for their blurb. Procrastinators of the world, unite! Tomorrow.

BUT, did you know that the best time to update or re-work it is when you don’t have a pressing need? Here are the reasons why:

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