Self-Editing Techniques (Before Submitting to an Editor)
Some great tips here!
Originally posted on Thinking Skull:
Editors are expensive, but the more you edit yourself, the better you’ll become.
Knowing the grammar rules and how to apply them is part of the process; the rest is actually finding the errors in your own work.
The more mistakes that you find and correct yourself, the easier of a time your actual editors will have finding the things you’ll STILL miss.
Set it aside for a few days for a fresh look – Looking over the same pages, paragraphs and sentences over and over has a peculiar effect on the brain: you’ll start filling in words that aren’t there. Close the book, go do or work on something else, then look over it again and NOT on the same day. If you can wait a week or longer, even better.
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