Hello everybody! My name is Mélodie and I'm a student at college in the program Creative Arts, Literature : Literature. Next year, I will go to university, to become an editor, in a publishing house.
In this job, when we edit a text, we don't want to hesitate to correct the errors that we saw. And we want correction to be simple. Sometimes, we ask ourselves if we did our job right. Am I right? I know that this job can be stressful, because if we make a mistake, everybody will see it in the book, in the final result.
I have been studying Literature since 2 years, but sometimes I still make mistakes, and it is okay because I still need to improve.
I read many books, and I am studying Literature for many years.
My goal, with this video, is to show you how to resolve this problem, when you don't know what to do.
It will take only a few minutes, you just need to listen and follow my instructions.
This is going to help you, and this website will change your life.
I will explain the problem. When you become an editor, you need to watch all the errors that could be in the text you are looking for. But how to know if it really is an error?
If you don't check well, the book will be published with an error in it. And nobody wants a book that has a mistake. It will reduce the quality of the book, and some people won't buy it.
For example, if you're editing a text, and you don't correct a verb at the right time, the readers can be disappointed.
That can be really hard to be an editor. But this website that I'm about to show you will help you for sure.
First, you need to open a new tab in your browser. Then, you search this URL into the address bar https://kindlepreneur.com/book-editing/ and you hit enter. This page will appear.
In the top left corner of the screen, you can see the name of the website, and in the top right corner of the screen, you can see a menu, or you can just scroll down, until you find what you are looking for. They're many articles that can help you. At the top of the screen, they're an introduction to welcome new editors. You know that you are at the right place.
Now, if you want go to find the solution to your problem, you just need to scroll down, until you see the articles. It shows you how to correct some errors, many words that can't be used in a text, and many other things, to upgrade the text.
So, in conclusion, if you hesitate about how to correct your words, or you don't know what to use, and if it is an error or not, you can easily use this website, with all the answers to your questions.
Before I end up the video, you can subscribe to my channel and put a thumb up, if it helps you! Thanks for watching, and have a great day!
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