Comments on: Save Money on Professional Edits—6 Easy Ways to Clean Up Your Own Manuscript https://authorkristenlamb.com/2017/02/save-money-on-professional-edits-6-easy-ways-to-clean-up-your-own-manuscript/ Author, Blogger, Social Media Jedi Sun, 28 May 2017 22:28:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.6 By: Lisa Batten Kunkleman https://authorkristenlamb.com/2017/02/save-money-on-professional-edits-6-easy-ways-to-clean-up-your-own-manuscript/#comment-76158 Sun, 28 May 2017 22:28:05 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=20891#comment-76158 In reply to Ms. Stretchy Pants.

Great idea. I second this suggestion.

]]> By: Top Picks Thursday! For Writers & Readers 02-09-2017 | The Author Chronicles https://authorkristenlamb.com/2017/02/save-money-on-professional-edits-6-easy-ways-to-clean-up-your-own-manuscript/#comment-71023 Thu, 09 Feb 2017 18:03:07 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=20891#comment-71023 […] After drafting comes revision and editing. Naomi Hughes reveals the top 3 scene issues she encounters, and Kristen Lamb has 6 easy ways to clean up your own manuscript. […]

]]> By: karenannwirtz https://authorkristenlamb.com/2017/02/save-money-on-professional-edits-6-easy-ways-to-clean-up-your-own-manuscript/#comment-71022 Wed, 08 Feb 2017 17:28:31 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=20891#comment-71022 Ha ha! Educational and VERY entertaining, as always.

]]> By: Katie Engen https://authorkristenlamb.com/2017/02/save-money-on-professional-edits-6-easy-ways-to-clean-up-your-own-manuscript/#comment-71021 Wed, 08 Feb 2017 12:26:40 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=20891#comment-71021 Engaging and practical. Thx!

]]> By: Sharon Vander Meer https://authorkristenlamb.com/2017/02/save-money-on-professional-edits-6-easy-ways-to-clean-up-your-own-manuscript/#comment-71020 Tue, 07 Feb 2017 22:44:39 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=20891#comment-71020 Love, love, love – okay, here’s another one – LOVE this blog and this post! Thanks. 6 Easy Ways rattled my cage, kicked my can, suitably stirred up the fires of my ever-expanding imagination, tickled my fancy… Okay, I’ll stop now. Thanks for this reminder of something that is easy to forget in the excitement (and drudgery) of writing.

]]> By: awshannonauthor https://authorkristenlamb.com/2017/02/save-money-on-professional-edits-6-easy-ways-to-clean-up-your-own-manuscript/#comment-71019 Tue, 07 Feb 2017 17:51:57 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=20891#comment-71019 My sister gave me the Emotion Thesaurus for Christmas this year. BEST SISTER EVER! I love it.
I tend to slip into passive voice too often and have to go back and change it. I also have my characters do everything “for a moment.” Seriously I could do a find and replace just getting rid of “for a moment” and lose 1% of my manuscript. LOL
Great advice! Thanks. Now I’m off to hunt metaphors and similes.
Ann

]]> By: Dave Pendleton (@DavePendleton8) https://authorkristenlamb.com/2017/02/save-money-on-professional-edits-6-easy-ways-to-clean-up-your-own-manuscript/#comment-71018 Tue, 07 Feb 2017 17:43:08 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=20891#comment-71018 Thanks, Kristen! I definitely noticed my own excessive use of “began to” and “started to” and worked that one out. Also now sensing I use “just” and “actually” too much. I’m a beginning writer and ‘don’t know what I don’t know’ so this is extremely helpful. I have what’s probably a weird system of hand-writing the first draft – did extensive report writing back when all I could use was a pencil – then doing edits when I type it in – so I’m definitely listening to you. Thanks, again!

]]> By: Cecilia Marie Pulliam https://authorkristenlamb.com/2017/02/save-money-on-professional-edits-6-easy-ways-to-clean-up-your-own-manuscript/#comment-71017 Tue, 07 Feb 2017 16:24:29 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=20891#comment-71017 My new writing partner: ProWriter. I am amazed at what it picks up. Works great in conjunction with other editing pricesses to analyze a manuscript in twenty-two different areas. I has helped sharpen my writing and clean up some errors before I send it onto the eest of my team. ?

]]> By: Sharon Lippincott https://authorkristenlamb.com/2017/02/save-money-on-professional-edits-6-easy-ways-to-clean-up-your-own-manuscript/#comment-71016 Tue, 07 Feb 2017 05:12:30 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=20891#comment-71016 Your humor and sizzling examples always keep me reading. I think the writing world needs about 500 iterations of this message. I did my part with a similar post yesterday on slightly different topics.

]]> By: sabrinawrites1 https://authorkristenlamb.com/2017/02/save-money-on-professional-edits-6-easy-ways-to-clean-up-your-own-manuscript/#comment-71015 Mon, 06 Feb 2017 14:43:20 +0000 https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=20891#comment-71015 Such an interesting post, I can see when I do this with my own work and its not pretty. Trying to get in the habit of working my ass off, putting it away then revisiting it at a later date.Thank you

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