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Writing Tips: How to have a Productive Workshop

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read it below or view the original   here, with live links and a couple of polls . Workshops and Editors are Necessary to Grow as a Writer Everyone who  writes —especially those who intend to sell and make a living at writing—need to workshop their work or, at the very least, have other eyeballs look at their work. Eyeballs who have an interest only in your writing and have no emotional or personal attachment to it. No matter how much you proofread, rewrite and edit, you’re going to miss something. Whether what you miss is a typo, a grammatical error or clarity within the piece, it still affects your credibility as a writer. And, let's face it. Even good writer's are guilty sometimes of bad writing. but bad writing is not hopeless writing (unless your name is Stephanie Meyer). I cannot tell you how many times I have edited and reedited a piece and published it, only later to find a huge grammar error, spelling error or typo. It happens to everyone and everyone, from the novi

North by Northwest

Back in school now, I'm taking a lot of film classes which also, somehow, count towards my English grades. I recently wrote an analysis of  North by Northwest  and I wanted to share that with you. I hope you will find it interesting. North by Northwest on HubPages