…Um, mainly because that last once-over almost inevitably makes what you’ve written better.
How? Why? I won’t waste your with details here because you can find them on justpublishingadvice.com, a site I regard highly, and where I saw the article below, correctly titled:
If I had my career to do all over again knowing what I know now, instead of the single-minded determination (AKA self-aggrandizing aggression that a few people may have noticed at one point or another as I pushed myself roward), I would do everything in my power to follow the example of the very young lady below.
Thanks for the life lesson, Rex Morgan, M.D. Where were you when I was 8 years old?
Nathan Bransford brings us up to date on how to make our book projects appear as professional as possible to lit agents, publishers, and even editors. As far as this TVWriter™ minion is concerned, this article is pure gold.
by Nathan Bransford
Proper formatting is by far the easiest thing you can do to make your book project appear as professional as possible to literary agents and the various professionals you will work with throughout the publication process.
Speaking of newspaper headlines, LATimes.Com this morning demonstrates the difference between the Big Orange and the Big Apple with a timely article about smoking weed during the pandemic.
The article is long and descriptive, but the first four words of the headline, which I have cleverly hidden until now, tell us everything we need to know:
Did you read that headline, gang? It’s the question of the day over at NYTimes.Com, and the good news is that they also have an answer:
The show’s new audience is also seeing something different in it: a parable about a country in terminal decline.
Take a good look at that second to last word. “Terminal.”