Different Levels of Editing by Dominique Lambright
Copyediting, commonly called line editing, is a light form of editing that applies a professional polish to a book. Read on for more details by editor, Dominique Lambright.
Copyediting, commonly called line editing, is a light form of editing that applies a professional polish to a book. Read on for more details by editor, Dominique Lambright.
Are your verbs steeped in emotion? Get some line editing help for your action verbs by new guest columnist developmental editor and author coach specializing in romantic fiction, Sue Brown-Moore.
Hook your readers with great beginnings and endings. If readers don’t like your opening scene, they won’t read the rest of the book. But if your last scene doesn’t provide a pay-off, you’ve failed them—and they won’t read your next book.
You want to be a better novelist but it can be hard to answer the question: what kind of feedback would you like? Discover the types of editing you can expect as you work to improve your drafts from novelist Willow Woodford.
Ezra and I are preparing for the October “Plan Your Novel” course (homestudy version here) and students are looking forward to writing their novels. Several of you wrote me last week and let me...
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