Posts Tagged ‘editing’
Tackling Edits: How to Revise & Cut Thousands of Words to Improve Your Writing
My eyeballs hurt, a deep ache after finishing the micro-edit on The Fiddler’s Son. This latest draft is now getting some well-deserved “drawer time” as it goes off to two beta readers to help me with yet another macro-edit. Macro-edit? Micro edit? What are these terms? They’re actually somewhat new to me, too, but they…
Read MoreProofreading vs. Editing: What’s the Difference?
When reading one another’s writing, high school students will almost always point out grammatical errors, misspelled words or typos before anything else. Perhaps its because they “know” how to fix those things. They’re easy to identify for good writers, but this is not editing though its part of the editing process. This is called proofreading.…
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