Edit, Edit or Edit?

Good article about editing.

Writing your first novel-Things you should know

I saw an article in Writers Digest recently titled Understanding The Types Of Editing. Well my first thought was, What do they mean types? Editing is when somebody goes into your manuscript and tears it apart, correcting all the grammatical and structural errors, right?

Well that is true, but it’s only one type of editing, and there are three different types listed in the article. The article also noted that a novel length manuscript needed to go through all three types before it was submission ready.

Developmental Edit – better known as the content editing, story editing, structural editing or substantive editing. This edit looks at the big picture of your novel and focuses on

character arcs/development
pacing
story structure
pot holes or inconsistencies
strong beginning, middle and end
plausibility/believability
clear transitions
point of view
showing vs. telling
dialogue

Copy Edit – copy editing is the one most of us think of when we hear editor. He comes on the…

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