Do your work justice by seeking proofreading assistance
Nov
22
2011It’s amazing how often you think you are completely finished with your editing only to look over your work again to find it strewn with errors. Sometimes these errors are just typos and mistakes with punctuation and at other times they are more serious.
What these errors show you is just how important proofreading is. When your next step is to send material to agents or publishers, you cannot afford to let any errors undermine the quality of your work.
Burnout prevents you from proofreading effectively. This does not just refer to your state of mind at the time of editing, but also to the number of times you have been exposed to the same material. You need someone else to help with your proofreading to do justice to your ideas.
