{"id":3085,"date":"2015-04-27T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T14:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=3085"},"modified":"2015-04-24T15:48:16","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T22:48:16","slug":"an-editor-can-offer-a-valuable-worthwhile-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/an-editor-can-offer-a-valuable-worthwhile-assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"An editor can offer a valuable worthwhile assessment . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An editor can offer a valuable worthwhile assessment of writing that can help move the manuscript closer towards publication. \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.writersdigest.com\/about-brian-a-klems\" target=\"_blank\">Brian A. Klems<\/a>, Writers Digest Magazine, October 2012<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note from Marlene:<\/strong> Editors are totally valuable and necessary to fact-check, spot-check, double-check and make you, the writer, look good.<\/p>\n<p>What does an editor do? Click <a href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?cat=104\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to check out the series of April 2015 blog posts by editors on The Write Spot Blog.<\/p>\n<p>So . . .\u00a0 Just Write!\u00a0\u00a0 Give those editors something to think about!\u00a0 Then work with an editor to whip your manuscript into shape.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/whip.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-3092 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/whip.png\" alt=\"whip\" width=\"213\" height=\"89\" \/><\/a>Doesn&#8217;t this kitchen whip look like a magic wand?\u00a0 With the help of an editor to shape your writing. . . it just might feel like a magic wand was waved!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An editor can offer a valuable worthwhile assessment of writing that can help move the manuscript closer towards publication. \u2014 Brian A. Klems, Writers Digest Magazine, October 2012 Note from Marlene: Editors are totally valuable and necessary to fact-check, spot-check, double-check and make you, the writer, look good. What does an editor do? Click here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[126],"tags":[691,692],"class_list":["post-3085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-write-2","tag-brian-a-klems","tag-the-write-spot-blog-guest-bloggers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-NL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3085"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3094,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions\/3094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}