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Comment on Essential Skills for Artists: Photography by Rope

Rope — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 08:56:46 +0000

This free sharing of ifnomartoin seems too good to be true. Like communism.

Comment on Irony in the Teaching Trenches by Fleta

Fleta — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 07:52:37 +0000

Time to face the music armed with this great infromtoain.

Comment on Writers, Editors, and Why Writers in the Age of an Unedited Internet Need Editors More Than Ever by Ray Anderson

Ray Anderson — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 11:02:02 +0000

I have to agree. Editing is important, and sloppy, unedited work on the internet is a problem. I wish for help many times and am looking forward to how you address this wish in your next post.

Comment on Passable to Professional: Surefire Ways to Improve Your Writing by Writers, Editors, and Why Writers in the Age of an Unedited Internet Need Editors More Than Ever « CreateWorkLive

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 21:56:58 +0000

[...] BUT: Good writing means more than agreeing nouns and verbs. It means more than scribbling something that passes your computer’s grammar check. [...]

Comment on Passable to Professional: Surefire Ways to Improve Your Writing by Writers, Editors, and Why Writers in the Age of an Unedited Interent Need Editors More Than Ever « CreateWorkLive

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 21:52:42 +0000

[...] BUT: Good writing means more than agreeing nouns and verbs. It means more than scribbling something that passes your computer’s grammar check. [...]

Comment on Passable to Professional: Surefire Ways to Improve Your Writing by Brenda Reeves

Brenda Reeves — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:26:12 +0000

Thank you for this helpful article.

Comment on I Published, I Was Published; Do We Care, and Why? by Karen Berger

Karen Berger — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:49:10 +0000

Hi Ray. Yup that’s me! Thanks for the compliment.

Comment on I Published, I Was Published; Do We Care, and Why? by Ray Anderson

Ray Anderson — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:33:54 +0000

Point well taken. It’s time to be honest.
Are you the thru-hiker and trailbook writer? I admire your work.

Comment on I Published, I Was Published; Do We Care, and Why? by Karen Berger

Karen Berger — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:25:01 +0000

Hi Aaron: Thanks for your comments! interesting the point you made…. when I wrote the article, I wasn’t thinking so much about first versus third person as about the use of (passive) language that suggests that someone else published your work when in fact it was you who published it. But you are right that they are related issues, and it’s all in the way you use them. I too always have to make the decision whether to write about myself in a bio as “Karen Berger” or as “I.” Often I choose, “I” especially if I want the feeling of talking directly to my readers. But if it’s a more formal situation, say a bio that is intended to be read by editors, or establish me as an expert with potential clients, then I might choose the third person. But in that case, if I had self-published a book, I would write something like “Karen Berger published her book 10 Ways to Succeed as an Ocarina Soloist, with Vanity Press in 2011.” I wouldn’t say “Karen Berger’s book 10 Ways…. WAS PUBLISHED by Vanity Press” if *I* was in fact the one footing the bill.

Comment on I Published, I Was Published; Do We Care, and Why? by Aaron Wolf

Aaron Wolf — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:02:06 +0000

Wonderful post. I struggled with this for a while, and then I decided that it was awkward and slightly dishonest to write about myself in the third person. It’s awkward for people who write their own bios on a website to say “Aaron is a guitar teacher” etc. If I’m writing it, I should say “I am a guitar teacher.” I see more and more websites of top authors using the first person this way as well, and that helps make it more acceptable. Third person lends a general sense of objectivity to things, but it isn’t honest if you’re actually talking about yourself.