Make These Mistakes and Get Rejected

Posted on May 2, 2005

Holt Uncensored shares "Ten Mistakes Writers Don't See (But Can Easily Fix When They Do)" this very helpful article. Some of the mistakes include repeats, flat writing, phony dialogue and awkward phrasing. Here is why avoiding these mistakes is important to those of you submitting manuscripts:

The point to the List above is that even the best writers make these mistakes, but you can't afford to. The way manuscripts are thrown into the Rejection pile on the basis of early mistakes is a crime. Don't be a victim.

Holt Uncensored is run by Pat Holt. She was book editor and critic at The San Francisco Chronicle for 16 years (1982-1998) and was named a board member of The Center for the Book at the Library of Congress in 1984. She is also the s the author of a biography of San Francisco private detective Hal Lipset called The Bug in the Martini Olive published in 1991 by Little, Brown and reprinted in 1994 as The Good Detective by Pocket Books.

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