Holt Uncensored shares Ten Mistakes
Writers Don't See (But Can Easily Fix When They Do).
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.
