Why beat around the bush? Various parts of the human brain are designed to globally take in all sorts of clues from the environment in order to assess and categorize various kinds of situations.
An engaging story simulates this experience for the intelligent reader. The best writers intuitively understand what the brain hungers for and serve up just what this demanding customer will gorge itself on.
First, hiring a freelance book editor is not going to guarantee you a publishing contract. Second, editors approach their work differently. Three-dimensional protagonists are de rigueur in genre fiction. Here at ProWritingAid, we wholeheartedly agree with that assessment.
Editing is an essential part of the writing process. At least! Editing your own work can be incredibly difficult. Already got ProWritingAid and ready to dive in deeper? Download this free guide to the software to learn how to use all of our integrations, reports, and resources to make your writing the best it can be. There are 25 powerful writing reports included in the free version of ProWritingAid.
Our powerful, easy-to-use software will take your writing from amateur to professional with a few simple clicks of the mouse. Grammar, style, and spelling issues will all be underlined in blue, yellow, and red respectively.
Click any of the three options from the drop-down menu to go to the first error of that kind. Then hover your cursor over highlighted text for suggestions and explanations. We find this feature is handy for anyone with quick turnaround times, such as bloggers or students. Simply upload your work, get your feedback, and edit. A grammar guru, style editor, and writing mentor in one package. Try it for free! Summary Report. We all know that there is a lot more to good writing than just correct grammar, and these suggestions are based on the same ideas you would learn in a university writing course.
The Style Report highlights several areas of writing that should be revised to improve readability, including: passive and hidden verbs, over-reliance on adverbs, repeated sentence starts, emotional tells, and much more. These suggestions are the same as a professional copyeditor would give you in fact, many of them use ProWritingAid.
If you are going to send your writing to a copyeditor then, by fixing all these mistakes upfront, your editor will be able to focus on the more important aspects of your work, such as tone of voice. How does improving your writing style increase the effectiveness of your writing? It can be useful when used intentionally, but if you over-use the passive voice your writing will be less direct and impactful for your readers.
When you write, you are reporting on the action as you see it in your head. Whether that action is a fictional scene, findings in a business report, or your argument in an essay, you need to take those ideas and convey them to the reader. The ball is thrown into the air by Jessica.
It is caught by Zubaida. It is stolen by Hannah at the last second. The last point is scored by Hannah. The game has been won by the Away team. Okay, we know what happened. But the immediacy of each pass is lost in the passive language. We lose the excitement as we fight to work out who or what the subject of each sentence is, or, in this case, who is holding the ball.
Jessica throws the ball into the air. Zubaida catches it. Sorry Paulo, your comment got stuck in my filter because of the link. All is good now, and thanks for the recommendation! Julie Hedlund said: Get 'em while they're free! On twitter, elizabethscraig shared a link about 5 great and free ebooks for writers.
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