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Edit Writing - Not As Difficult As You Think.

What is the number one biggest stumbling block to getting your writing published today? Answer. Editing. In this article you will learn how to quickly edit your work. This will put you on top of the heap at publishing houses and garner more sales when self-publishing.

Edit Writing � Not As Difficult As You Think

Hi Angela,

Absolutely. Human eyes are the best. But sometimes people don't have extra eyes available : - )

Thanks!

Have a wonderful week,

Bluedolphin

Good point Angela,

I should have included that in my article. I forgot that many people do not know that they cannot rely on the spell check in their programs.

After I have more articles up I will go back and add this to my article.

I appreciate your input...thanks!

That's always frustrating to me as a tutor and freelance editor. Silly, mindless mistakes are often made because writers/authors don't go back and check their writing for themselves. Oftentimes, though, there are those who don't even hit the Spellcheck button either...Honestly, that doesn't make any sense to me. [i]Not[/i] having [i]any[/i] check at all? I'm not exactly sure what the motivation is for not wanting to even use Spellcheck. A disconnection between professionalism and grammatical correctness, perhaps? Anyways, great topic! You're completely right, Bluedolphin; editing doesn't have to be such a chore...especially if you keep yourself in continual training on writing and grammar in the first place. :)

I hear you Veronika!

It can be very frustrating and disheartening to see material people think is ready for submission that does not have the basic editing done.

I've seen more and more of this over the last few years. At first I wondered what people were thinking?

Then I noticed something in other areas I work in online. More and more people were starting to write by using the new technology now available.

Almost anyone now can start a blog, jump into Internet Marketing, or begin writing any number of things. However, there is a big disconnect here.

People who are jumping online and writing using all this new technology and social media. Do not have any understanding of how to write.

Our schools don't teach skills to help people get published. And there is not yet a lot online that teaches people that there are basic skills that are needed in order to be published even on many popular blogs.

I know many here at BellaOnline have seen it with people applying for an editor position here.

I've spent a lot of time pondering on this. I truly believe that the ease of the technology and the accessibility has brought tons of people to a notion that they can write and make money.

Now, because the technology of getting online and the actual act of writing is quick and easy. People have no way of knowing what is needed, what skills they need to actually make money with writing.

That is one of my goals here in the nonfiction writing site. To first show all the different types of nonfiction writing. Then to help and teach people how to acquire or hone their skills to achieve the goal of earning money online.

I know a lot of POD, or Print on Demand companies struggle with this a lot. At first many simply accepted whatever people wrote.

Now you see most of these companies actually having an acceptance policy. And this is for so called "Self Publishing!"

Many years ago online in the Internet Marketing realm it was like the wild west. So many people selling information not worth very much for large amounts of money.

Now, Google.com and many other companies are helping to weed these types of people out. Google.com has recently hit the article directories with new base goals. They are beginning to help raise the bar and educate the people who are writing the articles and those publishing them.

I think if we teach the basics and be patient...we will begin seeing people with real writing talent emerge. They will stick with it and learn the skills they don't even realize they don't have right now.

Another sad thing I've seen is many people asking me to help them get published and they don't have any idea there is any editing needed.

Plus I've seen a lot of people who thought the spell check was wrong and added their spelling ideas to the dictionary. So their mistakes continue unabated.

As an active editor, can you give me some ideas of what you are seeing the most as far as common problems? That will help me to write articles that will help people learn about these things and how to fix them.

Great response thank you!

Have an awesome weekend,