Thursday, April 8, 2021

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Give Yourself Time:

Editing is not a rush job, it takes time, if you give yourself a week per chapter and like me have 60, that brings you to February 2022 (started in April 2021). Take the time, do the best job you can do, before sending it to the beta readers.


Grab your reader from the start:

Ensure that your novel, your plot grabs your reader from the very beginning, don’t take three pages, two pages etc., to get into the story, your novel should grab the reader straight away.


Grammar:

You do not need to focus on this until you have looked through the whole thing and fixed plot, character arc’s etc., of course if you are reading through it and notice the glaring grammar mistakes, then make a note to fix it when you are typing the second draft.


Give the work to beta readers who are not related to you:

This is to ensure that you get back proper feedback. You might think that your family or partner, or friends could be unbiased, but that isn’t always the case, they don’t want to hurt your feelings, they want you to believe you are the best, so they might innocently tell you everything is awesome, when it isn’t really.


Gadgets:

Make sure that all tech, science, and gadgets in your novel are appropriate for your time, or what you have told readers is appropriate for your world.

4 comments:

  1. Oh yes, about gadgets, so fun in movies to see anachronisms! Same in novels ;)
    Quilting Patchwork & Appliqué

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    1. I know right, that's what made me think of it lol

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  2. All great advice for editing a novel - before it is published rather than anguishing afterwards. Your time line for a first round of editing is practical. Each subsequent edit should take less time (in a perfect world). Best of success to you.

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