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Karen Boston's Blog – August 2020 Archive (3)

You don't need too much "order"...

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Helpful editing tip: cut "in order to." Instead of saying you're going to the kitchen in order to make a sandwich, just say you're going to the kitchen to make a…

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Added by Karen Boston on August 13, 2020 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Polling Your Readers...

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Some book marketing experts advise authors to poll their readers. By getting feedback from your most…

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Added by Karen Boston on August 12, 2020 at 1:24pm — No Comments

Do You Really Need All Those Semicolons...?

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Helpful editing tip: remove extra punctuation. A powerful hyphen here and thought-provoking semicolon there can be effective, but a story riddled with all sorts of punctuation (parentheses, colons, ellipses, etc.) doesn't flow well. You can often eliminate these extra pieces of…

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Added by Karen Boston on August 11, 2020 at 5:30pm — No Comments