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Last month, we started a conversation about how to conduct good online research. We focused on a few fundamentals in terms of how to determine whet...
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Of all the things I learned in college, there is one specific lesson in one specific class that especially stands out in my memory. At the time it ...
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If you sign up for editing at Word Alive Press, one of the early decisions you’ll be asked to make is whether to capitalize the deity pronoun in yo...
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It’s a frequently asked question among new writers: “How long should my book be?” And predictably, it’s a difficult question to answer… because of ...
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Speaking as an author, perhaps my favourite part of the writing process is the rush of excitement that comes when a new idea occurs to me and I s...
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Anyone else feeling a bit burnt out? If the audience reading this blog is anything like my group of close writer friends, the answer is probably “Y...
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by Word Alive Press
Providing Context and IDing the ReaderDuring the editing process of many a manuscript, authors wring their hands over the perfect title, and over t...
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I can still remember exactly where I was when I first learned about the Amazon Kindle. It was the fall of 2007, smartphones hadn’t yet flooded th...
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For more than a decade, my editing focus at Word Alive Press has largely been on giving authors that final polish their manuscripts need to get rea...
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by Word Alive Press
This post is part of our special series that will unpack the criteria we consider when evaluating manuscripts. Today is the second in a three-part ...
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by Word Alive Press
This post is part of our special series that will unpack the criteria we consider when evaluating manuscripts. Today is the second of three parts o...
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by Word Alive Press
This post is part of our special series that will unpack the criteria we consider when evaluating manuscripts. Today is the first of three parts on...
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