An Introduction to Editing: Doing Your Pre-editing Research

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post about how there are a lot of different kinds of edits and how you can edit a novel more easily by fixing different parts of your story at different times. If that sounds interesting, go check it out! This post'll be here when you get back. …

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An Introduction to Editing: The Many Different Types of Edits and How You Can Use Them on Your Novel

Writing a novel feels great, doesn't it? It's so emotional! So engaging! (All right, well, it can be, when you don't feel like you're yanking ideas out of your brain with a pair of pliers.) But when you're in the zone, everything you write feels powerful, important, and deep. Then you edit it. And whoops! It's... …