Imagine life as a fiction editor (interview with Amy Schneider, author of the Chicago Guide to Copy Editing Fiction)
Grammar Girl: For Writers and Language Lovers.
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How to Create a Style Sheet for Your Characters
For a series I keep a cumulative style sheet so that I have all the information there all together. A minor character in book one might become a major character in book two and then maybe in book four someone from book two will show up again. There's a lot of cross checking and double checking and making sure that we carry over all that information that we don't change anything that that shouldn't be.
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