5 Tips for Self-Editing

Want your writing to be good? Here are tips for editing yourself, in both fiction and nonfiction. 1. Capture attention from the start. 

There is a great book called the First Five Pages that lists a number of beginner mistakes when it comes to books, but it applies to all writing. For me, areas of over-description, also called infodumps are a bad sign early on. You only want to give the minimum of back information if you are writing fiction.

If you are writing nonfiction make sure those...