Chris The Story Reading Ape’s Blog has shared a wonderful Editing 101 series on his blog via Adirondack Editing . Here is no. 13 – Self Editing Part1…
Originally posted as the Dun Writin’—Now Whut? series on this blog, EDITING 101 is a weekly refresher series for some of you and brand new for others.
Courtesy of Adirondack Editing
Self Editing Part 1
Some of the things we’ve discussed previously are good to be on the watch for and remove, but there are other, specific tasks that can be done when a manuscript’s completed to help polish it. Since there are many of these odd jobs, this specific post will continue over time.
Editing your own work involves hard labor. Other authors have mentioned they make as many as ten to fifteen passes in editing, revising, and reworking, focusing on one or two aspects of self-editing each time. Those authors are to be commended, since writing a book is only one third of the work. Editing is the second third, and publishing and marketing take up the final third. You’re…
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M J Mallon YA Author and Poet 
Thanks for sharing Marje 😀
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I’ll have to go take a look!
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