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Fun with the Chicago Manual of Style
Daphne Strasert Daphne Strasert

Fun with the Chicago Manual of Style

One of the fun things we like to do here at Tomeworks is go through the Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS) Q&A to determine how their updates impact our editing world. Here are some of our favorites from late 2023. We hope these help you get your writing right the first time around.

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It Takes a Village to Write a Book
Daphne Strasert Daphne Strasert

It Takes a Village to Write a Book

Today we live in a world of Zoom calls and binge-watched television shows, of isolation in the big city and blocking people on social media. But we are no closer as writers to being an island than our forebears ever were. We need each other as a community, as partners in creative construction, and as reviewers and feedback-givers maybe now more than ever.

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Zombie Writing and How to Kill It
Daphne Strasert Daphne Strasert

Zombie Writing and How to Kill It

Today we’re going to discuss something much more horrible, much more frightening, something that will rise up from a dirty plot in the ground, grab your pacing by the legs, and drag it down, down, down until it too is a shambling mess, ambling mindlessly from one concept in your story to the next.

Zombie writing.

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