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Two Brothers Press - Blog: Editing Comes in Stages
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Thursday, November 6, 2014. Editing Comes in Stages. What is the "Right" Type of Editing for Your Work? The services offered to new writers at CreateSpace, iUniverse, and other such companies come in a wide range of choices, which can be confusing for new writers. How do you know if you really need to pay high prices for developmental editing, advanced editing, basic copyediting, or simple proofreading? Sure she has given the character a name; she just hasn't told the reader what it is. Instead of first ...
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The Thinking Man: September 2011
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In these days of divisive discourse where the point is to win by shouting and name-calling, now comes a rational man, willing to consider well-stated points of view on the issues of our time. Sunday, September 25, 2011. A Layman's view of the Universe. It's difficult to believe that in just ten or twelve years, we would have a man on the moon. Even in grade school we got to watch the launch of the rockets that took our astronauts into orbit. It was the space age! One day we would go to Mars. Our Earth is...
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Two Brothers Press - Blog: The Biggest Con in the Publishing Industry
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Friday, November 14, 2014. The Biggest Con in the Publishing Industry. Some] Editors and Self-Publishing Companies are Out to Fleece You. But in either case, as I also noted in the previous post, you should have your manuscript evaluated and edited before proceeding with either endeavor. POD companies also offer what professional editors offer, but they go a step further and tell you that they will also do this:. Providing a book proposal to an agent: $2,000.00. Developmental editing also known as advanc...
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Two Brothers Press - Blog: August 2014
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Friday, August 22, 2014. How to Develop Characters for a Novel. Six Distinct Ways to Develop Character. 1 Head to toe physical description. 2 Unique physical and other characteristics. 3 How a character acts and reacts. 4 What a character says about himself, about others, and about issues. 5 What others say about a character and how that character responds. 6 What a character thinks about. The movie), Doug and Windy Whiner ( SNL. Character physical description, along with unique physical characteristics.
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Two Brothers Press - Blog: To Publish Traditionally or Print on Demand
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Wednesday, November 12, 2014. To Publish Traditionally or Print on Demand. The Raging Debate between Two Paradigms. That is the first issue you must face head-on if you're going to be published the traditional way. What is "traditional" publishing? Butif you're going to be published traditionally, here is the downside:. Or Good Morning America. These promotions are reserved for well-known writers or infamous people. The problem with traditional publishers is that they have been aggregated into only five ...
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The Thinking Man: January 2010
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In these days of divisive discourse where the point is to win by shouting and name-calling, now comes a rational man, willing to consider well-stated points of view on the issues of our time. Sunday, January 17, 2010. The Antichrist, Revelation, Editing. I'm not religious, although I hesitate to claim I'm an atheist.maybe agnostic.but really just disinterested in a field of thought and way of being, concerned with, what? Do most people ever give this much thought? What do the saved eat? I think when I fi...
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The Thinking Man: February 2010
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In these days of divisive discourse where the point is to win by shouting and name-calling, now comes a rational man, willing to consider well-stated points of view on the issues of our time. Wednesday, February 3, 2010. My next editing project is not due until mid-month, so I have some time on my hands. So, why not write here? I thought in America, all men (and women) are equal; but have we now come down to Animal Farm. Politics, where all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others?
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The Thinking Man: April 2012
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In these days of divisive discourse where the point is to win by shouting and name-calling, now comes a rational man, willing to consider well-stated points of view on the issues of our time. Wednesday, April 4, 2012. Homophobia: the Lie is Hatred. Anti-gay protester with his little sign. It's late into the evening, not quite midnight, and I've just come off a long debate, after I started the discussion with my comments about an article titled, "Ex-'Gays' Seek Parity with Homosexual Promoters.". People a...
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Two Brothers Press - Blog: I'm Thinking About Words
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Sunday, November 9, 2014. I'm Thinking About Words. Words that Confuse and Confound Us. As I was working on a novel years ago, the word "feckless" came to me. I must have encountered it somewhere in my life, but I had no idea what it meant. I thought. It sounded like a kind of cruelty and I wanted to apply it to the phrase "feckless desert" to indicate how the desert can be a passive killing machine: unforgiving heat, lack of water, bone-drying sun, along with vicious plant and animal life. How ever you ...
