Guest: NAIWE’s Editorial Expert Barbara McNichol

Writers desire to have a nearly perfect manuscript when it becomes ready for publication. However, they have some mistakes in common with one another. Learning what these mistakes are and fixing them even before you hire the editor can make the editing process smoother, faster, and cheaper!

Here’s what you can expect to learn in this class:

• What editors wish their authors would do differently

• What writers can do to make their writing more clear and powerful

• Editing techniques—for both fiction and nonfiction writing—that will give you ways to immediately improve your prose

Audio only

Duration: 56 minutes

Barbara McNichol is a nonfiction editor who works with authors, speakers, and business professionals to add power to their pen through the written word. Barbara wrote Word Trippers: The Ultimate Source for Choosing the Perfect Word When It Really Matters. She offers helpful writing tips weekly and a course to take your writing and editing to the next level: “WordShops: Strengthen Everything You Write.”