I had occasion to reflect on personality and the influences of our personalities in our writing this past week. Particularly, I was thinking about how we see ourselves and how that differs from how others see us, and how our personalities are reflected in our everyday activities. In the case of writers, it is patently impossible to write without infusing the words with aspects of our personality in one form or another.
Personality is defined as those unique qualities that make up who we are. In my case, some of those qualities are my passion, my dedication, my sincerity, my tendency to over-think as well as my propensity for caring deeply about everything and everyone dear to me. These are qualities I believe and hope that people think about when they think of me. Yet I know that others see me differently than I see myself. This is borne out when I happen onto someone’s description of me. In the beginning, I was surprised at how people saw me, but I think over the years I have come to appreciate what [ more ]
If you pay a visit to Grammerly’s Facebook page today, you’ll notice that their cover image is a tribute to the Grammarly community’s biggest pet peeve: Your constant use of “your” instead of “you’re” makes me wonder whether your keyboard is missing some keys. It seems I am not the only one who gets a little annoyed when someone misuses the language.
Yet, I also know that I am not the only person who can be completely turned off of a book if the grammar is faulty. And even if the occasional subject-verb agreement is fine with you, a confusing or complicated sentence just takes away from the enjoyment of the book. If you can’t understand what is happening in the book, then you aren’t likely to continue reading it. Constantly misusing “your” for “you’re” is a very simple representation of incorrect grammar. Sentence construction is just as much a part of good language usage as is the correct selection of a word.
We writers tend to be blind to our grammatical flaws when we’re writing. It takes a very thorough [ more ]
As an editor at Free-eBooks.net, one of the things I do is to make sure that our eBooks meet certain standards. I have come across a few customer complaints and reviews that criticised the way the eBook looked in a particular format. And as we work to continually improve our services to our community, I wanted to research this thoroughly so that we can be confident that we offer the best quality to our readers as possible.
Publishing houses normally have a style guide that has explicit instructions on how to format a book for publication. One of the more popular ones is the AP Stylebook which is available online and in print. Having such a guide makes it easier to produce content that always matches a particular standard and can easily produce similar looking content without too much extra effort on formatting. We don’t have such a stylebook at Free-eBooks.net because we try to accommodate your artistic flair as much as we can without compromising quality.
However, images and [ more ]