Writing and editing are two different things, but the latter can be the key to producing well-written blog posts and blogged book manuscripts. Today writing teacher and New York Times bestselling author Jerry Jenkins (@JerryBJenkins) offers advice on self-editing. Want to immediately improve your writing? It’s not a matter of studying a specific technique, learning […]
How to Self-Edit as You Blog Your Book
When you blog a book, you publish the first draft of your manuscript in cyberspace. However, you still need to share great content. How is that possible when you aren’t sharing “finished” work with the world? You must learn to do a great job of self-editing your early posts—or versions of your manuscript—so they appear […]
21 Things To Do Before You Publish Your Posts
As you publish your blogged book post by post (or even if you just blog), ensure you place your best work on your blog each day. If you can afford to hire an editor or proofreader before you hit the “Publish” button—and most bloggers and aspiring authors can’t—use check list to determine if each of […]
Rami Shapiro Talks About How to Co-Author a Blogged Book
A reverend and a rabbi start a blog…stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Actually, Baptist minister Michael Smith and Jewish rabbi Rami M. Shapiro actually did start a blog called Mount and Mountain. The blog recorded a long-running dialogue between Mike and Rami in which the pair interpreted, argued about, and interrogated two […]
Why a Booked Blog Manuscript Needs Editing
Compiling a blogged book manuscript from all those posts you’ve previously written can be a big job—especially if you didn’t do a good job of organizing your blog with categories and tags. If you did, the manuscript may have come together pretty easily. However, as I mentioned in my last post, all you have now […]