Wordstruck - Three Stages of Editing

To make the publisher’s deadline for my new novel, I’ve been through an intense period of editing. At times it felt like running a marathon – except the finish line kept getting further away.

At the end, when I should have had my feet up, I went on an excellent one-day Editing Essentials course with Deb Doyle at the Australian Writers’ Centre. Deb is one of those teachers who’s passionate about her subject. At the end of a jam-packed day which covered editing rules, grammar and punctuation ti...