Sarah Kolb-Williams titles her post "10 Ways to Fake a Professional Edit," but it's really more about using professional editing techniques to improve your own copy. For example, she warns to be mindful of the difference between hyphens, en-dashes, and em-dashes: "Some authors use hyphens as a catch-all dash-but as you can see here, the hyphen confounds. There’s no such thing as a 'dash-but,' and it takes a few runs through the previous sentence to catch the syntax."
September 30, 2013