Line by Line Editing:
This is where you go line to line, chapter to chapter
making sure that chapters, paragraphs, and sentences say what you want them to
say in an understandable manner. Make sure that the points that you are making
are clear. Can be done in the next pass.
Listen to your work:
There are programs out there that will read back what
you have written, and some E-Readers do as well. Failing that you could read it
out loud, notice where you change up what you are reading (as we do sometimes),
then make a note to change accordingly. I suggest this because sometimes the
only way to catch something that you have read and reread quite a bit, is to
listen to it. It may not work for you, or even me, but if you can give it a
shot and see, especially if you are stuck.
Links:
Make sure all your plot links are added, and followed
through on, make a note of any that need an end, or you had forgotten in your
work.
Reading your writing out loud is one of the best tips I ever got. You might feel a bit silly doing it, but it definitely works!
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Reading your work out loud is a great advice. For something non-written (a quilt for instance, or a patchwork), we (quilters) use to take a photo, then look at it to see if things are wrong: color, pattern placement, etc. Always good to step back ;)
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I am also in the line by line editing phase. OR at least I should be, I also seem to be in the "let's add a bunch of new content while we are here" phase.
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Tim Brannan, The Other Side: 2021: The A to Z of Monsters
Thank you for all your tips! Please keep them coming. :)
ReplyDeletePersonally I read aloud. I don’t enjoy hearing some computer voice reading my work in a drone and also I notice something wrong, say “oh!” and fix it. Can’t do that properly th3 other way.
ReplyDeleteEditing oneself is really hard...we know what we mean...
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