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The Right Way to Ask a Published Writer for Publishing Advice

Jane Friedman

A mutual friend urged me to approach this writer with a question about how to publish the book I was working on. So, I walked up to him and asked if he had any pointers to offer on the publishing journey. All these years later, having published two books and many articles, I still cringe at the memory.

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5 Essential Legal Documents For Freelancers

Freelance Writing Jobs

Given so many freelance writers and editors are based in the US, we look at five essential legal documents every US-based freelance writer and editor needs. . 5 Essential Legal Documents For Freelancers. Your business registration is your most important legal document and forms the foundation of all the freelancing work you will do.

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Active Voice vs. Passive Voice: Transform Your Writing Style

ContentWriters

With the past tense, a passive sentence like “The documents were shredded by John” will change to “John shredded the documents” in its active form. The present tense sentence “The documents are being shredded by John” becomes “John is shredding the documents.”

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Writing the Author’s Note for a Novel

Jane Friedman

When you start a manuscript, create a document where you can toss in relevant material that you may want to address in your note. From beginning to end, writing and publishing a novel is all about telling a story and connecting to readers. Again, no set rules here, but the prevailing advice is to be brief.

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Publishing Advice from a Serial Submitter to Literary Magazines

Jane Friedman

Over the last several years, I’ve spent oodles of time submitting short stories, essays, poetry, and novels to literary magazines, contests, and publishers. We’re talking scores of hours devoted to searching, formatting, and submitting my stuff directly to the publishing gods (I’m excluding agents). Well, it’s simple, really.

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How to Preserve DOCX in PDF: Tips for Flawless Document Conversion

Freelance Writing Jobs

Document portability and compatibility are of paramount importance today. In this guide, we are going to explore a bunch of benefits of turning a DOCX file into a PDF and present you with universal solutions for converting your documents and preserving their original view. Reduced document size. High compatibility.

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10 Best Practices for Writing Documentation (For Those Who Would Rather Do Anything Else)

Grammarly

When I joined Grammarly as a developer advocate, my first task was to write documentation for how to use the Grammarly Text Editor SDK with desktop apps built on Electron. While I had experience writing tutorials, articles, and READMEs, I had never written official product documentation. I was in way over my head.