Even More Stuff Writers Write That Makes Editors Cringe

Your Favorite Blunders Explained So You Won’t Write Like an Amateur

Sandra Wendel
The Writing Cooperative
6 min readApr 23, 2023

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Book cover for author’s book based on these Medium posts. © Write On Inc.

Shall we start with a little fun quiz?

No Offense Taken

What’s wrong with this list of names from a nonfiction business book: Bob, Mary, Harry, Bill, Susan, Janet, Kim, Donna, Frank, and Mike?

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A picky nonfiction editor who helps authors write, polish, and publish their books. Author: Cover to Cover: What First-Time Authors Need to Know about Editing.