Editing Tip
Let me share with you an editing tip that I discovered . . . I think, yesterday. I haven’t tried it yet, but I think it effective. If anybody has tried it, do let me know; I will link back.
Almost every article on editing fiction will tell you the necessity of distancing yourself from your [...]
Editing
. . . is the toughest job ever, precisely because it is the most boring. I wonder if any writer enjoys editing their own work. If there is, I bow down humbly. As it is, a writer is the editor and the marketing guy of his work. Even if you hire others, it [...]
Advanced Editing
After you have finished writing your first draft, get ready to put on the editing hat. Start thinking of yourself not as a fiction writer, but an editor. First drafts are like young children. You can either mould them into becoming upright individuals or you can ruin them with thoughtless controlling. If you know exactly [...]
Basic Editing
Editing is not only correcting mistakes, as most people think. Anybody who has a good knowledge of a language can correct mistakes. An editor’s work is much more specialized than that. What he does is that he grooms, beautifies and improves your writing in such a way that your unruly story turns into a work [...]
