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Confessions of a Comma Splicer

By Melinda Crouchley

January 20, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Confessions of a Comma Splicer

I’m here to confess to my comma-splicing crimes and help everyone else who’s guilty of comma splicing learn the error of their ways before it’s too late. Just kidding—it’s never too late to learn something new or relearn something old.

Filed Under: Editing, Manager Monday Tagged With: comma splice, commas, coordinating conjunction, editor, grammar, independent clauses, learning, mistakes, punctuation, semicolons, sentence structure, subordinate conjunction, writer

Editing and Authorial Voice

By Julianne Pearson

September 9, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Editing and Authorial Voice

Everyone has different ways of understanding the world around them, and in order to draw that out for a keen audience, it is necessary for an editor to make all those red lines and to work with the writer to help them dig out their own unique voice.

Filed Under: Editing Tagged With: audience, authorial voice, balance, critique, critiquing, Editing, editor, publishing, voice, writer, writing

Editing while Writing: Temptation, or Good Advice?

By Jennifer Guiher

January 9, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Editing while Writing: Temptation, or Good Advice?

Numerous instructors of writing share the same advice when it comes to editing: resist the urge to edit while you write! Just get your ideas out, flesh them out, and worry about the fine points of editing later. But despite the numerous voices in your head and from those around you pleading for you to resist the temptation, is this really the best advice in any and every situation?

Filed Under: Editing Tagged With: author, complete, developmental, draft, Editing, editor, manuscript, rough draft, Ryan J. Pelton, writer, writing, writing advice

Stranger in a Strange Lab

By James Bezerra @standardkink

November 29, 2017 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Stranger in a Strange Lab

An entire village will work on that manuscript—caring for it, nurturing it, and helping it grow.

Filed Under: Inside Ooligan Tagged With: hex codes, MFA, Oogilan, publishing, Publishing Lab, writer

Experiencing My First Pitch

By John Leavitt

May 2, 2016 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Experiencing My First Pitch

I’m a bit of an outsider here at Ooligan. I’m not a spy, nor am I here with any other sinister purpose, it’s just that I’m not in the publishing program. I’m a grad student in PSU’s MFA fiction strand. I needed a one-credit course for the term, and the publishing lab looked interesting, so […]

Filed Under: Inside Ooligan Tagged With: Acquisitions, author, business of writing, Conspiring to be Meri, Meagan Macvie, MFA, Ooligan, pitch, publishing, writer

Coming in from the Cold (Part Three)

By Allison Green AGreenWriter

January 29, 2016 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Coming in from the Cold (Part Three)

In his essay, Solotaroff encouraged young writers to work on their craft for many years and think about publication—and possible glory—later. Write “in the cold” now, and you will eventually get your day in the sun. Some writers, undoubtedly, go from obscurity to fame, and they manage to maintain a relatively successful writing career the […]

Filed Under: Guest Blogger Tagged With: Allison Green, author, Richard Brautigan, Ted Solotaroff, The Ghosts Who Travel With Me, writer, writing

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