What Being An Editor Taught Me About Being A Better Writer

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My guest blog is up on the Magical Words website click here to read.

It's the early lessons that I keep coming back to. "Don't hit your sister" "Sharing is important, even if it is the last cookie" and "Never get involved in a land war in Asia" are all still important axioms to live by, while the advice "Be neat, be polite and be on time" applies as much to my manuscripts as it does to me.

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Since my above comment, I've been doing some work on my first novel. Used spell check and grammar check and found: Grammar check continuously confuses "it's" and "its," amongst other things. Also dislikes repeated words, as in "aye aye, sir." The function is also bad at determining which words are actual subject and verb and suggests changes that make no sense at all. Words that are normally verbs but used as nouns also confuse the heck out of the system.
Dave