DDW - S2 Ep 08 – When Money Gets Between Your Writing and Hiring Professionals

Doing Diversity in Writing

In this episode of Doing Diversity in Writing, we—Bethany and Mariëlle—take a pause to talk about what to do when hiring professionals to better your writing is not an option (yet).

What we talked about

• That there’s privilege in being able to advice others to do it right or not do it at all
• That not everyone has the same resources going into publishing their work
• What options are out there for authors with limited or no budgets

(Re)sources mentioned on the show

• “The different kinds of editing explained” by Mariëlle: https://mswordsmith.nl/editing-tips-tricks-different-kinds-editing-explained
• The Salt & Sage Books Incomplete Guides: https://books2read.com/ap/8Vy9vl/Salt-Sage-Books
• The Writers for Diversity Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/779217692216226
• The Writing the Other website: https://writingtheother.com
• Writing the Other: A Practical Approach: https://writingtheother.com/the-book
• CritiqueMatch: https://critiquematch.com
• Scribophile: https://www.scribophile.com
• Mariëlle’s 52 Weeks of Writing Author Journal and Planner: https://mswordsmith.nl/journal

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