Julie MacShane
Writer, Editor and Publisher
~ Polish Your Work ~
Editing * Writing * Managing * Workshops
♦ Polish your words and improve their flow and meaning whether they be in an article, a novel, or a report
♦ Edit, prepare, and manage your digital or print publication
♦ Give you reasonable rates from an award-winning editor with 20+ years of experience and a masters degree in writing and literature
♦ Prepare your book's interior design for self-publishing or lay out the pages of your newsletter
♦ Send you a free quote and sample editing by emailing me two pages of your work
♦ Write your Life Story for family, friends and posterity
♦ Give special writing and editing workshops, including: "Follow Your Passion Writing Workshop" for aspiring writers; "Book Autopsy/Book Critique" for book clubs; and "How to "Wrap Up" Your Writing as a Gift".
♦ Contact me with any questions or requests
On Character:
"No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character."
~ John, Viscount Morley of Blackburn, Life of Gladstone, 1903
On Plot:
"And much of Madness, and more of Sin,
And Horror the soul of the plot."
~ Edgar Allan Poe, The Conqueror Worms
"Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes."
~ Virginia Woolf
On Dialogue:
"Men use thought only to justify their wrong-doing and speech only to conceal their thoughts."
~ Voltaire
On The Writing Life:
"The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master - something that at times strangely wills and works for itself."
~ Charlotte Bronte
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