Tag: editing
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The REAL way to handle “said” when writing dialogue
You’ve been taught the wrong approaches to deal with the too-frequent use of the word said in written dialogue. Having too little variety in your dialogue tags is only a symptom of a deeper underlying issue: too little variety in your sentence structure. Once you solve for that, your repetitive dialogue tags will clear up…
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Juvenile Fiction: Understanding Lower Middle Grade, Upper Middle Grade, Chapter Books, and More
New sub-categories of juvenile fiction keep emerging to help kids find the right books for every developmental stage. We can break them into two main groups: simple chapter books for emerging readers, and more complex middle grade novels for independent readers. These groups are then broken down further.
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Rescue the Structure of Your Nonfiction Book
While your subject is the topic your book is about, its thesis is the organizing idea your book is setting out to prove. All nonfiction needs a thesis, not just academic texts.
Erin Alladin 