Waitangi Day is a public holiday in New Zealand and marks the anniversary of the initial signing of the ‘Treaty of Waitangi’ on 6 February 1840, a document that was meant to provide equality, but has fallen short in many ways.
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In case you don’t know, editing is the process that takes your finished manuscript and polishes it. Chances are if you’re a writer then you probably know this, what you may not know is that there are different types of editing, and not all types of editing are created equally.
One of the things you don’t generally imagine, or at least I didn’t imagine, when you sit down to write your first novel is that you’ll not only need a cover, but that you’ll have enlist someone to create one, or do it yourself.
Okay, so it’s not quite two years, and as an author I’m not even as successful as the breath you take before saying J.K Rowling, but despite not becoming an overnight publishing success I’ve learnt a lot.
Given multiple conversations I’ve had over the last few days it’s pretty evident to me that I’m not the only person who has somehow come to believe that they have to be experts at things before they’ve even had a chance to actually try the thing for the first time.
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Karla RoseI'm a Christian, a wife, and a mother of two living in the wonderful Waikato Archives
April 2021
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