It's often the most time - consuming edit, and it's
the first type of editing you should pursue — ideally after finishing your first draft.
Not exact matches
I just plowed my way through my
first week, importing some recipes,
typing in some,
editing the shopping list, and finally creating the PDF
of the Meal Plan.
I had download it and was able to
edit the
first two pages, just not the last page with the single line
of type.
For many self pubbers, it's not good business sense to spring for the
type of professional quality
editing, copy art, and production value that makes for * good * self publishing — especially if they are a poor
first time author with unproven work.
We'll get to why you shouldn't
edit your own book in a minute but
first let's talk about the
types of editing a book needs and the process before it can be published.
With Polaris Office, business executives can easily view and
edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents with an excellent option to view PDF files too but the lack
of a physical keyboard might make things a bit tricky at
first for those who are used to fast
typing speeds on their BlackBerry QWERTY keyboards.
Whether your «story» is your
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Editing provides affordable proofreading, copy
editing, and substantive editing services for all types of business, student, and personal
editing, and substantive
editing services for all types of business, student, and personal
editing services for all
types of business, student, and personal needs.
In the comments section
of my post about the different
types of editing authors need, many authors chimed in about the value
of beta readers as a
first line
of editorial defense.
I feel a more specific definition around the
types of editing services being paid for, and at what price, will bring a better understanding
of what the responding authors are actually doing in their process from
first draft to published.
10 Things Your Freelance Editor Might Not Tell You — But Should: The
first section
of this page has a good description
of the various
types of editing that are available.
I sometimes use as an example, it's two paragraphs that open a memorandum, and it's the real thing, I pull these in and we
edit these two paragraphs and we see how much better they could be, but one day I was teaching to a group and there was a partner and in fact there were several partners, but one
of the partners raised his hand and he said, you know, this reads like a
first - year associate who is unsure
of herself, and I was agreeing that I hadn't seen that earlier and expressed it that way because when put all this stuff into our writing, the vis - à - vis
type phrases and a lot
of overblown ways
of expressing ourselves, all we are doing is showing that we are insecure that we really don't believe in what we're saying.
Please note that the revisions are for
edits we're making to the resume if the
first draft needed anything added, deleted, reworded, corrected, etc.; if you need an extra resume for a different
type of job, or need your resume updated a year later, those are separate projects (which I'm happy to accommodate and typically entail a fairly small investment since we've already laid a great foundation with the initial resume).