At Writer’s Relief, we offer proofreading services to writers of books, novels, stories, poems, and essays. If you would like to learn how to be a better professional proofreader or how to do a better job of proofreading your own writing, keep reading our helpful tips!

It can be hard to see our own writing for what it is. We think it’s brilliant or terrible. It’s overdone or underdone. It’s exactly right and not what we’re going for at all.

There are a lot of emotions wrapped up in how we writers look at our own work. And those emotions can get in the way of getting a clear, focused picture of our strengths and weaknesses. If you want a clearer, more honest way of approaching your own writing and self-editing process, start here.

Nothing distracts your reader as much as grammatical errors, whether they be misplaced commas, dangling modifiers, or pronoun agreement problems. Perhaps the most noticeable of these errors are sentence-structure errors—sentence fragments and run-on sentences. It is always helpful to have a proofreader, like those at Writer’s Relief, look over your creative writing before sending it out for publication. Here are some tips on how to recognize, correct, and even avoid fragments and run-on sentences.