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Posts Tagged ‘free writing resources’
Consistent Copyediting With Style Sheets (Get a Free Template!)
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
Professional copy editors and proofreaders rely on a style sheet to make sure a manuscript follows a consistent style from page 1 through page 999. A style sheet, like the one pictured above, just makes it easier for the copy editor to check facts and pick up on errors.
Copyediting style sheets work as an organizational tool and a communications tool too. Here are a few examples of how a style sheet can help streamline the editing process:
10 Tools for a Copy Editor’s Toolkit
Monday, November 23rd, 2009
Copy editors use a variety of tools to do their jobs effectively. In this post, you will find 10 of the most important. If you have tools you think belong in the copy editors toolkit, let us know in the comments.
1. Notebook
Just because copy editors don’t write entirely NEW content that doesn’t mean copy editors don’t take note of exceptional writing. When coming across copy you love (or copy you hate), jotting down those ideas in a notebook can come in handy later. And what copy editor doesn’t love a Moleskine notebook like this one?
Website Content Writer Checklist
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
The No. 2 Pen specializes as a website content writer providing original, fresh copy for clients. We also advise our clients on website content writing best practices too.
As part of our growing list of free writing resources, we’ve created a website content writer checklist, which is particularly beneficial for small- and medium-sized businesses who have decided to take on the task of website content writing for themselves.
How to Outline Your eBook
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Check out our free eBook Outline Template recently added to the No. 2 Pen Writing Freebies page. Outlines are an important step toward writing an eBook.
In the template, I provide a skeleton of an outline, along with ideas for what type of content should be included in various parts of your eBook. The goal is for the outline to help you generate ideas and to help you structure your ideas in a way that allows the reader to “get” what you are trying to say.
More specifically, I cover the following four areas in the eBook Outline Template.