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EDITING & BETA-READING  1 - spacing  Editors and proof-readers have to read a lot, more than most normal people. We need it double-spaced. It makes it easier to read than a barrage of condensed words. Please double-space it. Make your work easy for people to read. 2 - alignment  Likewise alignment, justification. If your word processor cannot justify it to have the text straight down along both the left and the right margins, it is a bad word processor. Stop using it and get one which can do this function.  For example: SL notecards do not have this desirable feature. Newspapers always use the format.  While it looks pretty with words lapping like waves at the sea-shore along the right margin, this is improperly aligned. It is no longer the industry standard practice because it makes it more difficult to read.  3 - typeface It is not publicly advertised which fonts to use for the industry standard or it will become more confusing for professionals to si...

WRITING AND SUCCESS Have you decided to be a writer?  Behave that way. Write.  Have you decided to be a struggling writer?  Behave that way. Struggle.  Have you decided to be a successful writer?  Behave that way. Be successful.  How?  What is success to you?  What is a successful writer to you?  “I complete the manuscript.”  Good. One point.  “My books sell.”  That is a successful capitalist. It is a whole different thing to being a writer. One point.  “Everyone knows my pen name.”  That is fame. You can get that by blowing up parliament. Not so much to do with writing. One point.  “My printed books are influential, cherished and preserved for many generations yet to come.”  Excellent. That is a successful writer. One point.  Which of those four points is a successful writer?  They all are. That is how we should behave.  We now have goals and structure.  “How do we achieve all that?”...