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Edit Ready: How to make your book as good as you can, before you send it to an editor.
Edit Ready is an author's reference book for use during story development, writing and both self editing and when you get your manuscript back from your editor.
Put like that, it sounds rather dry, but reference books always do.
Actually, though, although it has an exhaustive contents page, three different indices and 6 appendices, this is not a dry reference book. In fact, at any given time, the ink has only ever been dry for about 4 months.
Because Edit Ready is compiled from notes, guidance, teaching and conversation with authors, while working with them to make their manuscripts as good as they can, but also, to help them to become better authors.
Every time I edit a book, I look at the topics that arise, and try to find a way of generalizing the help and advice I give to its author, so that I can pass the advice on to all authors.
So really, Edit Ready is an attempt to avoid editing, by ensuring you know in advance about anything and everything that your editor has to deal with. The idea is that this will make you a better writer.
Finally, Edit Ready is unique because it is in constant revision; additions and changes are made every time I edit a manuscript. So there are new versions 2 - 4 times a year.
Put like that, it sounds rather dry, but reference books always do.
Actually, though, although it has an exhaustive contents page, three different indices and 6 appendices, this is not a dry reference book. In fact, at any given time, the ink has only ever been dry for about 4 months.
Because Edit Ready is compiled from notes, guidance, teaching and conversation with authors, while working with them to make their manuscripts as good as they can, but also, to help them to become better authors.
Every time I edit a book, I look at the topics that arise, and try to find a way of generalizing the help and advice I give to its author, so that I can pass the advice on to all authors.
So really, Edit Ready is an attempt to avoid editing, by ensuring you know in advance about anything and everything that your editor has to deal with. The idea is that this will make you a better writer.
Finally, Edit Ready is unique because it is in constant revision; additions and changes are made every time I edit a manuscript. So there are new versions 2 - 4 times a year.
182 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 31, 2016
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January 20, 2018
This feels like one of this writing advice books that you should read all the way through once and then pick it up now and again to whet your blade.
I found the content really useful and reassuring for fiction writing.
I like that the author updates the book 3-4 times a year. I didn't like that this was version 2016a, suggesting that it hasn't been updated since early 2016.
I didn't like that some bits weren't complete.
I didn't like the weird post-index bits which were frankly out of place.
Someone else complained about the author's decision to use chuse instead of choose. Given that the author comments on this sort of thing being a problem for readers, I've no idea why he chose (chuse?) to do it.
That being said, I read this on kindle unlimited (which I have just binned off), and I felt that the content was so large that, unlike many other writing books, it can't be summarised into notes easily, and I am therefore likely to purchase this book in the future.
I found the content really useful and reassuring for fiction writing.
I like that the author updates the book 3-4 times a year. I didn't like that this was version 2016a, suggesting that it hasn't been updated since early 2016.
I didn't like that some bits weren't complete.
I didn't like the weird post-index bits which were frankly out of place.
Someone else complained about the author's decision to use chuse instead of choose. Given that the author comments on this sort of thing being a problem for readers, I've no idea why he chose (chuse?) to do it.
That being said, I read this on kindle unlimited (which I have just binned off), and I felt that the content was so large that, unlike many other writing books, it can't be summarised into notes easily, and I am therefore likely to purchase this book in the future.
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