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A Clever Way to Edit for Indie Authors

7/14/2015

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Sometimes, okay, a lot of times, an  author gets so  deep into his/her own writing that  he/she can't  see all of the mistakes that  are blatantly obvious. Typos, incorrect word usage, repeated words or phrases, run-on sentences and the like are all passed by because an author doesn't have what's called an "exterior point of view" to the story.

What is an exterior point of view? Well, remember the last time you had a really BIG problem in life and it seemed impossible to solve? You were so wrapped up in it, emotionally bogged by it and deep into it that you just couldn't see any way out of it? Remember having a problem like that? Then one day, you told a few friends about it and they helped you solve it with incredible ease? 

Or how about the time you looked at someone else's problem and helped them solve it just as they were about to meltdown in hopelessness... It's always easy to see solutions, and see things correctly when you are exterior to the problem and not too immersed into it. That is an exterior point of view.

It's the same way with writing... You get so immersed into your owns story that you literally cannot see every flaw, problem and incorrectly spelled word. This is why we hire editors. This is why we have our friends read it and give us their feedback. But who has hundreds or thousands of dollars for an editor? Or a friend that can and will come to your beck and call every time you need to know if your writing is trash or not? Not many of us do, unfortunately. Furthermore, how many friends actually know anything about proper grammar or well executed plots? It's a small list.

So what is this new way to edit that will help to alleviate this problem of being to  internalized  into  one's own writing?   

It's called,  Text To Speech (TTS)  A  computer  program that  reads your text aloud to you, so that you can hear your own story told from an exterior source. There are many programs online that can be found, which  use natural sounding voices, both British and American to read your  story aloud.  

It cannot catch every mistake, but it will  find A LOT of mistakes, AND it will  allow you to hear the story  as a reader might read it , which is huge.  I've been using a  program called Naturalreader and it 's amazing. It  integrates  right into Microsoft Word and  has  extremely human sounding voices.

It has  helped me tremendously  and I  hope it can help you too!
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Subject 15: The Loser's Streak is live!

7/1/2015

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The moment everyone has been waiting for has finally arrived! You can now purchase and read, 'The Loser's Streak.'

Get your copy today!


The Loser's Streak (Subject 15)
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