Guest: NAIWE’s Editorial Expert Barbara McNichol

Do you need to hire an editor but can't afford the one you really want? Learn ways to save both time and money in the editing process by making some of the corrections to your manuscript yourself. Explore how to turn five words into one word, change two weak sentences into one strong sentence, identify and remove lazy words, write in parallel paths with rhythm, write more concisely by changing nouns to verbs, and more!

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

• How to whack wordiness

• How to set your objectives

• How to pursue a parallel path

• How to punctuate and proofread with fresh eyes

• How to match the word to the meaning

Audio Only

Duration: 54 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.”