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Clients
- Authors
- Book shepherds & coaches
- Publishers
- Testimonials from satisfied clients
- Ways to work together (estimates, scheduling, billing, warranty)
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Company
- About All My Best Copyediting and Heartfelt Publishing
- Contact All My Best
- Overview (Home page)
- Philosophy, Lynette's, general
- Philosophy, The Four Agreements by don Miguel Ruiz
- Services overview
- Testimonials
- Ways to work together (estimates, scheduling, billing, warranty)
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FAQs
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Free Documents to View or Download
- PDF documents:
- Microsoft Word documents (none at this time)
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Publications by Lynette M. Smith from GoodWaysToWrite.com
- For writing and publishing books:
- 80 Common Layout Errors to Flag When Proofreading Book Interiors (40-page handbook, print or eBook)
- For writing and presenting heartfelt letters of appreciation:
- How to Write Heartfelt Letters to Treasure: For Special Occasions and Occasions Made Special (comprehensive reference book)
- How to Write a Heartfelt Letter of Appreciation (self-contained themed guides based on the book)...
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Resources
- Resources page contains sections on
- Preparing
- Writing
- Polishing
- Publishing
- Marketing
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Services
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Writing Tips
- Overview
- Clear, concise writing, including:
- Common incorrect words or phrases (a myriad of, could care less, more then, reoccur/reoccurring)
- Parallel structure in lists, ensuring the use of
- There is and there are, avoiding the use of
- Formatting in MS Word and HTML
- Use a nonbreaking space to lock two words together on the same line
- Use a nonbreaking hyphen to lock a hyphenated word together on the same line
- Use an em dash (long dash) instead of a double hyphen
- Use an en dash (the symbol for to, through, or minus) instead of a hyphen
- Punctuation
- Commas and/or semicolons surrounding however
- Commas before who or whom
- Commas or colons with such as and including
- Quotation marks, ending, placement of punctuation with
- Parentheses, placement of ending punctuation inside or outside
- Semicolons and/or commas surrounding however
- Spelling
- First or last names, how to make plural
- First or last names, how to show possession
- First or last names, when to use an apostrophe
- How to make most nouns plural
- Word placement
- Not only, proper placement in a sentence
- Only, proper placement in a sentence
- Word usage
- Affect versus effect
- Imply versus infer
- It's versus its
- That versus who or whom
- Who versus whom
- Whoever versus whomever
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