Tag: Lynel Johnson Washington
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Flexibility and the Writers Capacity for Growth and Learning
The novel or short story is first and foremost a source of entertainment, what consumers turn to among myriad of choices, to provide rest and relaxation, from a world moving at breakneck speed. To insure the most comfortable reading experience, writers want to offer a story with interesting plot, centered on characters about the reader…
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Patience: Perhaps the 21st Century Writer’s Greatest Strength
Patience was among the many aspects forming the writer-editor relationship that my guests on this weekend’s broadcast on Book Talk, Creativity and Family Matters, addressed. Developmental editor and author of Business Unusual, Linda Beed along with former editor for a publishing company and now free-lance editor, Lynel Washington Johnson, stressed the need for authors and…
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The Developmental Editor, The Copy Editor
A poorly written story or a novel with gaps in plot structure or characters that act incongruent to the personality established at the outset of the work are like a movie that appears fuzzy on the screen, out of view and unfocused. Developmental editors like Linda Beed can spot these malfunctions in story and suggest…
