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For the confused author/editor: Style sheets vs Style guides
What the hell is a style sheet? Well, in computer lingo, it’s CSS or a cascading style sheet which tells you what everything on every HTML page of your website looks like design wise. It’s supposed to make it more efficient to create and design websites. But that’s not what you mean right? No, it’s not. Say you are an author (fiction, non-fiction, corporate, government, whatever) and you send a document (your precious, your boss’ precious and so on) to an editor. And the editor sends the document back and a few others, one of which is this weird combination of the alphabet and square boxes. That little document is…
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The writing process, step by step
We discussed the process of writing in the last post. This post is about the steps in writing a book and getting published. So the first one was about how to get started with writing as a hobby or getting used to writing in general process wise and this is about the process of writing, editing and publishing a particular book.