Editing: Fine Tuning the Manuscript

Editing: Fine Tuning the Manuscript

After the major surgery is “done” (there will always be changes with each subsequent pass), I start looking at fine tuning the manuscript. I print out the manuscript again, again in my columns format (saves a lot of paper, as you can see—the thick stack is the printout of my nightly read-throughs of each chapter, and I don’t reformat.)

Doing another full read of the manuscript helps find errors I might have created in that first major culling pass. If I del...