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Growing, Pruning, and Shaping Your Story

By Amanda Hines

June 30, 2021 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Growing, Pruning, and Shaping Your Story

Many writers often ask how their first draft gets turned into a polished manuscript that is ready for publication. This first step is called the developmental edit, which takes place after the text has been completed. Most people think of editing as just grammar, punctuation, and proofreading, but those are more line level elements; developmental editing, or substance editing as it’s sometimes called, is all about the content: the meat of the story and what form it will take by the time it reaches readers. This is the phase where we analyze characters, plot, setting, and even the pace of the story. These are the big issues that require the use of three techniques to help refine the story: growing, pruning, and shaping.

Filed Under: Editing Tagged With: developmental editing, Editing, first draft, questions, Tools

Help Me Design

By Corey Talbott

April 1, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Help Me Design

Whether you are a graphic-design guru, a website developer, a technical writer, or any other professional who has some sort of visual element in their day-to-day (so, everyone), you are surrounded by design. So let us dive into some resources for the non-designers.

Filed Under: Design Tagged With: adobe, Crap, Design, graphic design, help, Illustrator, InDesign, Online, online help, Photoshop, resources, Tools, typography

Mind Your Style Sheet

By Olivia Rollins

February 17, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Mind Your Style Sheet

Though style sheets can seem confusing at first, they are among the most important tools at a copyeditor’s disposal. As long as you keep your style sheet organized and record all of your decisions related to mechanics and style, you should be all right. (Or is it “alright”? Better check the style sheet.)

Filed Under: Editing, Manager Monday Tagged With: character names, copyedit, copyediting, copyeditors, edit, Editing, Editors, grammar, house style, how-to, hyphenation, manuscript, spelling, style, Style Guide, style sheet, style sheets, terminology, tips, toolkit, Tools

Social Media Tools & Ooligan

By Brennah Hale @thebrennah

August 29, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Social Media Tools & Ooligan

As social media continues to boom through today’s generation, businesses must use these platforms in order to market their own companies and organizations. But how exactly are these companies benefiting from their social media, and how do they know what to post that will further engage their followers? The answer is social media tools.

Filed Under: Marketing Tagged With: analytics, audience, demographics, Facebook, followers, geographics, Hootsuite, instagram, listening, Marketing, media, Ooligan, privacy, sentiment, Social Media, Tools, twitter, writing

Four Alternatives to a Regular Word Processor

By Michele Ford

November 23, 2016 by Digital Content Leave a Comment

Four Alternatives to a Regular Word Processor

Many writers are quite satisfied using pen and paper, Word, Google Docs, or Pages to complete their writing projects—and certainly, pen and paper was the only method available to writers for centuries. But when those tools don’t quite get the job done, here are some others to consider. Q10 was developed by Spanish programmer, designer, […]

Filed Under: Inside Ooligan, Publishing Tagged With: 750 Words, Q10, Scrivener, Tools, Trello, writing

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