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When an author finishes a draft copy of their text, whether it be a manuscript, an essay, a thesis, or a short story, to ensure an accurate and improved final version, they will need to go back through it and make a few changes. This process is known as editing, but the words revise and edit are often...

A key question to ask when writing your book is ‘who gets to tell the story?’ Whose perspective are you writing from? Most books you come across are written in either the first or third person. While editors don’t see eye to eye on many topics, there is one rule that many tend to agree on: don’t write...

A novel is a long, narrative work of fiction. It is written in literary prose that entertains and tells a contribed story with a chain of events that includes characters, setting, dialogue, plot, conflict, climax and some kind of resolution. It can instruct or divert the reader, or both. A novel is presented...

Usually found at the end of the first paragraph of the introduction, the thesis statement serves to outline the topic under discussion as well as provide a brief summary of the finer points detailed in the thesis. Thesis statements are usually targeted to a specific audience, usually those with specialist...

Everyone has a book in them, or so the adage goes. But how do you actually get started writing one? Do you just start writing, or should you plan it out first? And even if you plan, where do you go to from there? Will it really require much time and perseverance? The answer to all these questions is...