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  Noticing Newbies  1. About this Newsletter 2. A Word from our Sponsor 3. Letter from the Editor 4. Editor's Picks 5. A Word from Writing.Com 6. Ask & Answer 7. Removal instructions  Welcome to the Noticing Newbies Newsletter! Our goal is to showcase some of our newest Writing.Com Authors and their items. From poetry and stories to creative polls and interactives, we'll bring you a wide variety of items to enjoy. We will also feature "how to" advice and items that will help to jump start the creation process on Writing.com We hope all members of the site will take the time to read, rate, review and welcome our new authors. By introducing ourselves, reviewing items and reaching out, we will not only make them feel at home within our community, we just might make new friends! Your host this week: bianca_b  Passionate about writing? Take your passion to new heights - with an online Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, available only from top ranked National University. Choose workshops based on your interests. Work with experienced and published faculty. Prepare for a variety of career opportunities. Use a state-of-the art online system: Study where and when you want. Click here to get more information!  Editors… If you are planning to send your work to a publisher, you’ll definitely are going to meet them. Editors. They check your work if it is worthy to be published in their magazine or anthology. They check if you use punctuation properly. They make suggestions to the author, how to make their work better. In fact; they are giving you a headache. Is it worth it? Is the work that the editor does essential for you, as author? I think it is. But editors have their own style; some change your work in the way they like to see it, some literally use the red pen. Personally I prefer the method of the red pen. Especially with punctuation problems; adding a comma instead of a semi colon, or remove it when necessary the red pen can do miracles. Then it becomes visible why the change has to be made. You’ll see that your sentence flows better. And for people like me – with English as second language – it is important to see. Otherwise you’ll make the same mistakes over and over again. Editing spelling is a different story though. You can work on that for a large part yourself. If you are working with a program like Word, you can use the spell check function. That doesn’t mean that you have to trust on it completely. But general spelling errors like forgetting to capitalize at the beginning of a sentence, or the well known I-rule, will be taken care of directly. I’ll give you an example what Word’s spell check doesn’t correct: He is living on Venus. Better is: He is living at Venus. Why? In this case Venus is meant to be a street name. Everyone knows that living on the planet Venus is impossible. So in this case at is better than on. And it is a mistake that one can easily make. I made it. And I am not proud of it. But I was glad that my editor saw this, so I could improve my work. Dan, thank you!  For this week I selected several interesting pieces, written by the newest members on Writing.com
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