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If you ever find yourself stuck in your research project, there’s no need to panic⎯we can make use of many different techniques to become unstuck. As they say, where there’s a problem, there’s always a solution; all you need to do is recognize what is holding you back and move forward as best you can. Are...

My name is Dr. Jeff, and I am one of the editors at FirstEditing. Before my editing career, I was an academic, conducting historical research and publishing in peer-edited journals. I would spend hours in archives, poring over documents for the minutest details that perhaps might have been overlooked...

Location Split – Improve Your Story Writing Location split just means that a location within a scene has changed. For example, the scene begins inside a house, and the next piece of the scene is in a taxi; that would be a location split. The location split is very important when reading a manuscript,...

We’ve all felt it; that cringe in sympathy for a coworker who sent out a very important email to the whole team, including the big boss, and there it is, a typo. Or we’ve had to delete a tweet because we used their instead of there or worse, autocorrect used a very inappropriate word and a hundred people...

Most fiction writers have an image of themselves in their favorite writing nook, comfy, beverage of choice nearby, clicking away at the keyboard and filling page after page with best-selling content. If only… The reality of writing fiction is more like the old black-and-white movies, with a harried typist...