Tips to Develop You’re Writing Skills (Part II)
- Once you have decided where to submit your work; write to publishers’ for the submission guidelines. Some prefer to see a letter about your work before they look at your actual work. Some prefer to see a partial manuscript or a synopsis and few of the sample chapters. Others prefer complete manuscripts! In general, all publishers prefer your work to be submitted in typewritten form, double-spaced and printed on one side of plain white bond paper. See that you enclose a self-addressed stamped envelope, if you want your work to be returned.
- Check that your work is as technically correct as possible. Ensure that the grammar, punctuations and spelling are right, as they are the important part of writing.
- If you’re successful in impressing the editor with your work, be ready to edit and revise, as nobody’s work makes it to printing press/online journals without going through repeated readings. Sometimes these changes might need structural work, including adding, cutting and re-arranging large chunks of materials.
- Never be afraid of rejections or getting rejected, if you are receiving rejection letters, it shows that you are submitting your work for publication and it is the only way to have your work published. It might take time and history is always full of stories about masterpieces which were repeatedly rejected before they were published!
- Read! Read! Read!
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