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Edit like an Editor: A Wattpad Featured Guide ✔

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Reads 198,200
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Parts 111
Time 9h 46m

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*A WATTPAD FEATURED GUIDE*
*Highest Ranking #5 in Non-Fiction's HOT List*
*Ranked #1 in #how-to, #1 in #editor, #1 in #publishing, and #1 in #grammar*

• Do you find yourself with too many typos?
• Do grammar and spelling tools not always find your slip-ups?
• Is English grammar just not your thing?
• Are you a victim of writer's block?
• Do your characters' personalities fall flat?
• Is your dialogue boring?
• Do you need help staying consistent with your points-of-view?
• Are you struggling with choosing the best genre for your work?
• Have you finished your first draft and don't know where to go from there?
• Are you in the bulk of your revising stage and could use some guidance?

jgfairytales has compiled this guidebook together through her experience as an editorial freelancer and Wattpad editor and critic. She knows what the Wattpad writer struggles with. She wants to help you learn how to avoid those slip-ups again, and she does so with easy-to-understand writing.

Learn how to edit your work like an editor through these chapters full of detailed explanations, examples, guides, tips, and practice questions from yours truly.

After reading this guidebook, you will walk away with an understanding of (American) English grammar and the confidence to comfortably edit your own work.

The end goal for every writer is, of course, publication. jgfairytales even has a few tips for you to reach that goal and how to stay on track.

jgfairytales has grown as an editor and critic from college courses, textbooks, guidebooks, editing and critiquing others' work, and editing her work. All references used will be cited, so you may also refer to them if you wish to.

Copyright: All Rights Reserved by Jennifer Gioia Rowland © 2016-2018; © 2024
However, where credit is given, the copyright is (CC) Attribution-ShareAlike.All Rights Reserved

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