Editing 101 – Part Three š
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Originally posted as theĀ Dun WritināāNow Whut? series on this blog,Ā EDITING 101Ā isĀ a weekly refresher seriesĀ for some of you and brand new for others.
Courtesy of Adirondack Editing
Self-Editing Part 3
If you missed them, you can findĀ Self-Editing Part 1 HERE and Self-Editing Part 2 HERE.
This interim series offers other, specific self-editing tasks that can be done when a manuscriptās completed to help polish it. Since there are many of these odd jobs, this specific post will continue over time.
Today Iām going to review two tasks that I automatically perform on each manuscript I edit.
The first is to eliminate double spaces. Some of us learned to type a long time ago when the standard for spacing after the end of a sentence was two spaces: period, space, space, new sentence. This was originally implemented as a āruleā because of monospaced fonts, also called fixed-pitchā¦
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Thanks for sharing Claire š