by David Colin Carr | Jun 4, 2013 | Editing, Uncategorized, Writing
Last week I wrote about the editor’s nightmare of receiving a manuscript that needs to be reformatted before it can be edited. Today we’ll look at the dream: Guidelines for preparing your manuscript so your editor doesn’t have to hack her/his way through your...
by David Colin Carr | May 27, 2013 | Editing, Uncategorized, Writing
When writers don’t understand the word processing program they are using (most use MS Word which looks simple but is, in fact, amazingly complex – too complex for the needs of most of us), they unintentionally insert their desired formatting directly into their...