Tag: Easy Editing

• Easy Self-Editing – Redundancies (Pleonasms)

  

  The first draft of A Study of Ash & Smoke was riddled with redundancies, AKA pleonasms. My editor, Nerine Dorman, took to my debut manuscript with a kill-it-with-fire vehemence and likely mumbled a million curses at the ceiling as she removed them (among other issues) from my very *cough, cough* unpolished novel. I’ve said this…

  Yolandie Horak

  April 22, 2024

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