Editor's Notebook
By Kalifer Deil
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About this ebook
This is a guide to help writers edit their own works. It is often very difficult to find many of your own errors. This guide will provide a systematic approach that if followed diligently will get most of them, prepare for e-publishing and improve style as well. Editors are expensive for self publishers to use so I developed this guide to help me do my own editing.
I was a daydreamer in school and paid little attention to my teachers which ultimately lead me to an engineering career. There I could get by with an elementary grasp of the English language but I needed far more to tell stories that I felt compelled to tell. Hence, this book is a product of that evolution.
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Kalifer Deil
Kalifer Deil is the pen name of Gary Feierbach a Silicon Valley computer software and hardware engineer. His technical publications are under Gary Feierbach. All others are under Kalifer Deil. He has a BA in Physics and Mathematics and an MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.He has worked on computer architecture, design, engineering management, and systems and application software for NASA, Intergraph, Sun and Apple.He has only recently devoted most of his time to writing. Most of his works would be classified as hard science fiction. Hopefully it is in the spirit of Issac Asimov but generally a bit more gritty and less inhibited. Please visit his website http://www.kaliferdeil.com for some free stories, poems and other oddities or go to http://www.speculativescience.com for more information
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6/24/2012 Revision Notes
This revision has replaced some whiches with thats and has removed a comma before an ellipses to satisfy some grammar purists. It isn’t always the case that common usage becomes proper grammar after some period of time but frequently it does. Perhaps I didn’t wait long enough or was overzealous in reducing my use of the word that.
1/20/2012 Revision Notes
Some corrections thanks to David King. Improved some formatting and changed to three dot ellipses without internal spaces but a before and after space because it looks cleaner.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Consistency in Plot and Characters
Story Facts Check
ebook No No’s
Software Checking
Check Verb Tenses
Check Voices
Check Punctuation
Spell Checking
Contractions
Reading for Errors
Cover Art
That That Word
Common Word Usage Problems
Subjunctive ‘to be’ Usage
Who vs. Whom
Doubling words
Capitalization
Compound Words
Miscellaneous Words
Typos
No Such Word
Hyperlinking Chapters
Editing Checkoff List
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Introduction
Writing as a hobby or as a job can be very rewarding but seldom monetarily. You do it because you feel you have something to say. You may not ever desire to publish it for others to read except family and friends. Even in this case you will want to edit what you write to make it a pleasure for those who will read it, even if it’s a very limited audience.
If you’re writing to publish then you must have your work edited.