Worderella Writes

How to be a Computer-based Beta Reader

Now that we’re all connected using Crit Partner Match (if you haven’t joined, you should!), it occurred to me that many of us are computer-based beta readers, which can be a monumental task. So today’s tidbit will provide useful tricks in Microsoft Word 2003 to help you become a more efficient and productive beta reader. If you use a different program, comment with your tricks to help your compatriots.

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Networking for Writers: Crit Partner Match

Hi all, I know I’m disrupting my posting schedule, but this is too cool to pass up. Zoe Winters, our guest blogger today, has clued me in on a new networking opportunity that is both fun and useful, too. It’s called Crit Partner Match, and the premise is that it’s like eHarmony.com or Match.com, but for writers looking for a critique partner. I’ve already set up a profile and am about to write my introduction in the Historical Fiction group.

So join us at http://critpartnermatch.ning.com/. I hope to see you there, no matter your genre!

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Trials of an Editor

Think your editor, or all editors, have it good because they get to sit around proofreading the next Great American Novel while drinking tea? I never really thought about it. Most the things I hear about are how difficult it is to be a writer, or an agent, or a publisher. But the editor? Well, I guess I figured they sat around reading already approved manuscripts and that there were enough of them to go around. According to Lucia Macro, that’s very untrue. Read below to find out just how a real editor spends her day:

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Time to look for an editor…

We hear so much about the importance of editing, and moreso the importance of letting someone else read our work before we attempt to publish it. The thing is, how do we know who to trust? Who should we allow to look at our writing? How do we know when to stop writing and look for that editor? The following article sheds some light on the situation…

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