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10 Editing Mistakes First-Time Authors Make (That Could Cost You Readers)

Guest post by Renée Smith. You’ve typed the final word of your manuscript. After months, maybe years of writing, your...
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10 Editing Mistakes First-Time Authors Make (That Could Cost You Readers)

Master editing with these key editing tips for first-time authors. Ensure your manuscript is reader-ready without common errors.

C. S. Lakin

N-gated Hacker News Nov 18

🎩✨ In this riveting tale, a wannabe wizard of code reveals his groundbreaking, 🚀 earth-shattering discovery: #programs can... wait for it... edit their own text files! 🧙‍♂️📜 This is neither #metaprogramming nor magic, just a wild journey back to 1960s computing. Who needs a REPL when you can have a self-obsessed code editor? 🤡💻
https://ianthehenry.com/posts/my-kind-of-repl/ #wizardofcode #selfediting #1960scomputing #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated

My Kind of REPL

I want to tell you about an idea that has had a huge influence on the way that I write software. And I mean that in the literal sense: it’s changed the way that I write software; it’s re-shaped my development workflow. The idea is this: you can write programs that modify themselves. And I don’t mean macros or metaprogramming or anything fancy like that. I mean that you can write programs that edit their own source code.

Christina Anne Hawthorne May 24, 2025

My blog post from almost two weeks ago that I forgot to share that finishes my self-editing series. Whoops.

Of particular interest is the portion concerning microtension.

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https://christinahawthorne.wordpress.com/2025/05/15/exploring-the-self-editing-system-part-5/

Exploring the Self-Editing System – Part 5

This marks the final post exploring my Self-Editing System, which is my editing process with a chart. Feel free to use it in part, whole, or adapt it. In whole, it’s meticulous, but effective, slow…

Christina Anne Hawthorne

Christina Anne Hawthorne May 9, 2025

This week's blog post:
Exploring the Self-Editing System - Part 4

Part four of five, as it turns out. It's pretty extensive, but oh is it meticulous.

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https://christinahawthorne.wordpress.com/2025/05/08/exploring-the-self-editing-system-part-4/

Exploring the Self-Editing System – Part 4

I’m sharing what I call my Self-Editing System, which is my editing process with a chart. Feel free to use it in part, whole, or adapt it. In whole, it’s meticulous, but effective, slow, but free. …

Christina Anne Hawthorne

Christina Anne Hawthorne May 2, 2025

This week's blog post:
Exploring the Self-Editing System - Part 3

The series continues because that's how meticulous the system is, its best feature being that it's free. You just do it.

Too, my "system" can be used in part, in whole, adapted, or used before sending off to a reputable editor.

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https://christinahawthorne.wordpress.com/2025/05/01/exploring-the-self-editing-system-part-3/

Exploring the Self-Editing System – Part 3

Christina Anne Hawthorne

Christina Anne Hawthorne Apr 26, 2025

Latest blog post…
Exploring the Self-Editing System - Part 2

Continuing through the chart I use and further exploring the process I use.

https://christinahawthorne.wordpress.com/2025/04/24/exploring-the-self-editing-system-part-2/

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Exploring the Self-Editing System – Part 2

Christina Anne Hawthorne

Christina Anne Hawthorne Apr 18, 2025

Latest blog post:

Exploring the Self-Editing System - Part 1

https://christinahawthorne.wordpress.com/2025/04/17/exploring-the-self-editing-system-part-1/

#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Writers #Writing #Indie #SelfPublishing #SelfEditing #WriterLife #WorldOfOntyre #Editing #WritersOfMastodon

Exploring the Self-Editing System – Part 1

It’s time to share what I call my Self-Editing System, which is really just my editing process. Feel free to use it in part, in whole, or adapt it. In the form I use it, it’s meticulous, but effect…

Christina Anne Hawthorne