Booklet Publishing - How a Peer Group Can Help You Avoid Looking Like an Amateur
You've finished your manuscript.
It's not perfect (even if you think it is) but it'll do.
Good enough.
Now, before you move to the production phase, there's one more thing you need to do.
If you don't you may just kick yourself.
How To Avoid Looking Like An Amateur Get a group of your peers together and have them look over the manuscript.
Ask them if there is anything that isn't clear or that they think you should change.
This is extremely important because these people can literally save your backside and keep you from looking like an amateur.
Your goal is to be thought of as a professional, and a peer group can help you with that.
Peer Groups Are Not For Editing This is not for editing purposes.
It has nothing to do with your grammar and punctuation.
This is to make sure that your manuscript makes sense and conveys the information you want it to.
Your peer group can come up with some great ideas that you might never have thought of on your own.
They'll also find areas of the text that just don't work, or that don't seem to make sense.
When you read your material, it's easy for you to understand because you are the one who wrote it.
But, when someone else reads it, it gives you an entirely different view of your work.
It tells you how others will perceive and understand it.
Matching Your Work To The Right Peers You can use any group of peers you like, but it helps if the peer group you use is involved in your booklet's topic.
For example, if your booklet is written for stay at home moms, get a group of stay at home moms together for tea and let them read your manuscript.
If your booklet is about homeschooling, get a group of homeschoolers together.
If you don't want to get a group together, you can approach people individually, but the group is better because people feed off of other people's ideas.
Mary has a suggestion and it sparks and idea in Alice, so then Alice gives you her idea too.
Alice may not have thought of that idea if she hadn't heard Mary's idea.
This may seem difficult to you or like an unnecessary step, but it will helped you to write much better material and therefore be the professional you need to be.
Copyright 2009 Kim Hillman
It's not perfect (even if you think it is) but it'll do.
Good enough.
Now, before you move to the production phase, there's one more thing you need to do.
If you don't you may just kick yourself.
How To Avoid Looking Like An Amateur Get a group of your peers together and have them look over the manuscript.
Ask them if there is anything that isn't clear or that they think you should change.
This is extremely important because these people can literally save your backside and keep you from looking like an amateur.
Your goal is to be thought of as a professional, and a peer group can help you with that.
Peer Groups Are Not For Editing This is not for editing purposes.
It has nothing to do with your grammar and punctuation.
This is to make sure that your manuscript makes sense and conveys the information you want it to.
Your peer group can come up with some great ideas that you might never have thought of on your own.
They'll also find areas of the text that just don't work, or that don't seem to make sense.
When you read your material, it's easy for you to understand because you are the one who wrote it.
But, when someone else reads it, it gives you an entirely different view of your work.
It tells you how others will perceive and understand it.
Matching Your Work To The Right Peers You can use any group of peers you like, but it helps if the peer group you use is involved in your booklet's topic.
For example, if your booklet is written for stay at home moms, get a group of stay at home moms together for tea and let them read your manuscript.
If your booklet is about homeschooling, get a group of homeschoolers together.
If you don't want to get a group together, you can approach people individually, but the group is better because people feed off of other people's ideas.
Mary has a suggestion and it sparks and idea in Alice, so then Alice gives you her idea too.
Alice may not have thought of that idea if she hadn't heard Mary's idea.
This may seem difficult to you or like an unnecessary step, but it will helped you to write much better material and therefore be the professional you need to be.
Copyright 2009 Kim Hillman
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