Anne King, Author at Words by a Pro https://old.wordsbyapro.com/author/anne-king/ Wed, 28 Feb 2018 01:49:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/cropped-WBP-FAVICON_7-32x32.jpg Anne King, Author at Words by a Pro https://old.wordsbyapro.com/author/anne-king/ 32 32 Target Sighted: Why Your Writing Depends on Knowing Your Audience https://old.wordsbyapro.com/target-sighted-writing-depends-knowing-your-audience/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=target-sighted-writing-depends-knowing-your-audience Fri, 02 Sep 2016 20:01:22 +0000 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/?p=1773 On any given day, we end up writing in some manner or another—more than likely, it’s in an email format. That, at least, is simple–there’s no question about knowing your audience when you write a personal email. But for other types of writing, this becomes a bit more difficult to pin down. When beginning any […]

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]]> Angels and Brats: Which One Are You? https://old.wordsbyapro.com/angels-brats-which-one-are-you/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=angels-brats-which-one-are-you Tue, 24 May 2016 18:13:38 +0000 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/?p=1691 To put broad strokes on the canvas of writing and editing merely for over-simplification, there are two overarching types of writers and editors: the brats and the angels. How they behave is distinctly different due to their different roles. The good news is, once a writer or an editor recognizes he or she behaves in […]

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]]> Weathering the Storm: Clean Up Your Writing Before Your Editor Does https://old.wordsbyapro.com/weathering-the-storm-clean-up-your-writing-before-your-editor-does/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=weathering-the-storm-clean-up-your-writing-before-your-editor-does Wed, 10 Feb 2016 01:25:19 +0000 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/?p=1602 Editing is the calm after the storm. It’s when the survivors pick through the wreckage, making a semblance of a life again. A little dramatic, perhaps, but it’s apropos. Writing is the storm that messes everything up, throwing words, punctuation, and grammar here and there…and editing cleans it all up. While the chaos of writing […]

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]]> A Little Love for Put-down Punctuation https://old.wordsbyapro.com/your-dog-ate-grandma-folly-of-missing-commas-and-semicolons/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=your-dog-ate-grandma-folly-of-missing-commas-and-semicolons https://old.wordsbyapro.com/your-dog-ate-grandma-folly-of-missing-commas-and-semicolons/#comments Fri, 04 Dec 2015 19:39:11 +0000 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/?p=1519 In journalism, commas in a list are frowned on (AP Style outright bans them), and simplistic writing is encouraged. While journalists are, by far, some of the best writers out there, they have to adhere to a certain style—and not just AP or inverted pyramid. Their writing itself must be presented a specific way, or […]

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