Susan Uttendorfsky is a guest on The Story Reading Ape, bringing us Part 25 of her Editing 101 series: Style Guides for Fiction. Even though The Gregg Reference Manual is typically for business, I’ve used it for decades and find it an invaluable resource. Susan lists several other editing guides that you might find helpful. Bottom line: If self-editing, a style manual is a necessity!
Originally posted as the Dun Writin’—Now Whut? series on this blog, EDITING 101 is a weekly refresher series for some of you and brand new for others.
Courtesy of Adirondack Editing
Style Guides for Fiction
In order to make the English language (or any language) consistent, style guides and manuals have been developed to use certain consistent rules or standards. Most industries or professions have their own style manual, so that all materials written for that industry are of the same standard. This not only includes punctuation, but also capitalization and grammar.
For instance, all newspaper articles in the US are written using AP (Associated Press) style. For business, there’s The Gregg Reference Manual, and for web publishing, there’s the The Yahoo! Style Guide. Each of these style guides has different rules, and someone writing for those industries must follow those rules.
If you’re working for the United States government, it has…
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Thanks for sharing Tina 😀 XXX
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Welcome, Chris ❤
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Hi Tina Frisco, I am an editor here in the Caribbean. I have been following you on twitter for a while now. But only yesterday I came across this blog post and really liked it. That brought me to your blog. I am also pleased to see you use writing as therapy while producing books and benefiting from it. Great job Tina.
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Thank you, Phillip, for the follows and for commenting. It’s a pleasure to meet you, and I look forward to sharing in days to come. ❤
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Looking forward Tina
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