Beyond Edits: Revisions

Beyond Edits: Revisions

Last time, I talked about dealing with your editor’s feedback, and offered a couple of tips and tricks. But once you finish going through the easy and obvious—grammar, typos, punctuation—it’s time to move to the next level. I call this next phase “minor revisions” as I’m making changes a tiny bit more complicated than adding a comma or fixing a typo.

These are the places where my editor has suggested a different word, phrase, line of dialogue, tag, or beat. Note, I say “...