Should You Edit Your Published Book?
Since I’ve been so focused on showing love, I’ll share Diane’s wonderful post about re-editing your already published book. Great insight in here. Love it Diane! #ChooseLove
Like just about anything we do (paint, cook, dance, carpentry, write) we get better with practice. We learn better methods, the tricks of the trade, how to blend color and spices, cut a rug and cut a bevel.
We learn how to craft a tight plot and rich characters, show versus tell, reduce dialog tags, choose verbs, kill the adverbs. If we’re lucky, we get strong feedback from editors, critiquers, and beta readers. We take courses, read books on writing, and write, write, write.
Knowing that improvement is a given, the books we wrote five years ago might not look as polished as those we write today.
As I reclaimed my publishing rights from my publisher, I planned to reread my books to correct typos and buff them up a bit. I didn’t expect to do much rewriting – after all, the books were edited and they’ve received decent reviews.
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