First Editing Steps: How to Transform Your Novel

fictionwritingtips:

Whether you’re pleased with your first draft or you want to tear it to shreds, you should take the editing process very seriously and use it as an opportunity to transform your novel into something you’re super proud of. You worked hard on that first draft, you spent months—or maybe even years—building something you can rework into an impressive full length masterpiece. Don’t stop working after that first draft is done. Give yourself a break and jump back into it.

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