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Education Why Do You Need An Editor
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
So, you have a manuscript of your soon-to-be-best seller. Or you have those articles that you want to publish so you can increase your traffic and sales at your website. You think they are perfect and you publish them on the web. All of a sudden, you are getting phone calls and emails from your friends and family letting you know that you misspelled this word here and had an incomplete sentence there. More embarrassingly, they tell you that the book (articles) just didn't make sense; that they didn't have any continuity from once chapter to the next. How could you have avoided these issues before going public with your work? You could have taken steps to correctly edit your work first and then you could have had your wonderful work reviewed by an editor. You can not be a successful author without some sort of editing. All writers should get their work edited prior to any form of publishing. Why? Because it can save you from some embarrassing phone calls or emails like above. But maybe more importantly, it is a reflection on you and your business. For example, if you are writing something for your business, it should reflect the quality of your services. If it is sloppy writing, then your potential customer may not want to read further and you may have lost a client when simple editing could have saved the day. Why risk losing a customer because you didn't take the time to edit and revise your work? It is just not worth it. How many times have you read something that you wrote and failed to pick up the spelling error (for example, there for their)? Yet, the minute fresh eyes see the same writing, they immediately see what you glossed over every time. After all, you slaved over this manuscript for days (weeks, months). It has to be right. But our brains see what they want to see and so we see that word spelled correctly. Someone else who reads your work for the first time does not have your vested interest in the manuscript, so they can see what your brain has been overlooking. Basically, you need to edit and revise your work prior to sending it to an editor. Then you need to send it to a professional editor. Even if you feel that you have done a great job, fresh eyes can pick up little items that you may have missed and more importantly, make suggestions as to flow and content. Remember, you are writing about something you know. Concepts that you take for granted may not always be clear to your reader. Getting someone else to read it from a flow and content standpoint, not just spelling and grammar, is not only a great help, but a necessary basic tenet to becoming a great writer. In future articles, I will give you helpful hints to guide you in editing your own work prior to sending it out for professional editing help. I will also discuss the different types of editing and why you may want to look for several editors for your work.
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