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#SelfPub – Part 3: The RESET Style Guide

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A neat trick is to search for the word on Google then cut and paste into your Word/Google document as plain text.). Two en dashes should be used mid-sentence either side of an emphatic comment from the author. Brackets can also be used at the end of sentences, in the same way en dashes are used above. Avoid these words.

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How I 1st-Drafted an 87,000-Word Self-Help Book over 46 Days in 2018*

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Looking back now, my initial concept was unambitious: a business card book that would have grown my media list but not set the heather on fire. I retained the two docs so I could see the “fat outline” structure in one document. Change em dashes to en dashes, insert spaces between en dashes and words in footnotes.

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Who talks to (and about) colleagues like that?

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And even though employee “advocacy” is a new term used for programmed engagement, “activating” staff or encouraging their ”gamification” move them in “social” speak to a new type of en masse command-and-control that is downright creepy. We hope to activate the accounting department first.