Editing Checklist: Grammar and Style

An editing checklist is an invaluable tool for an author and I highly recommend using one to help focus your edits. Here’s a checklist I personally use when editing my manuscripts for grammar and style. This list is not comprehensive, simply common errors I look out for in my work.

1. Do you know what phrases or words you overuse?

Make sure any pet words or phrases are deleted. I went through a horrible stage of repeatedly starting dialogue with the use of ‘so’ or ‘well’ -shudder- I definitely...