Proofreading tips for revising and editing your writing

Proofreading tips for revising and editing your writing. Wooden box containing wooden alphabet dice. Photo by Pexels.

5 simple tricks you need to know about proofreading your own work

First published October 5 2017: This article has been updated and improved.

I’ll be the first to admit I was a woeful speller at school.

In fact I almost repeated because I was so bad! 

But over the years as a print editor I’ve read a lot of copy and seen the same mistakes crop up time and again.

The good thing is these common writing pitfalls are not hard to fix when you are polishing your autobiography, memoir, biography or life-story manuscript.

Here are five proofreading tips to clean up your writing today…

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