
Effective Editing
How to Take Your Writing to the Next Level
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Professor Molly McCowan
Editing your own work is difficult, but it’s a crucial skill to master if you want to be a successful writer. After all, writing goes far beyond simply creating a rough draft - it’s how the work evolves from a rough draft to a finished piece that separates the good from the great. And as anyone who’s tried their hand at revising a novel or memoir can tell you, it’s all too easy to become mired in the details rather than see the bigger picture, merely focusing on the trees and forgetting the forest, until it grows unwieldy and overwhelming.
The tendency during the revision process to focus on the “little picture” versus the “big picture” can be overcome with the right tools and perspective. This is where Effective Editing: How to Take Your Writing to the Next Level comes in. Book coach and editor Molly McCowan takes you through the self-editing process in 13 detailed lessons, using a step-by-step method designed to reduce overwhelm and to structure the revision process in the most productive way possible. Working from the big to the little picture of your work, Molly shows you how to strengthen character development, find and fix plot holes, build stronger scenes, focus on smooth pacing and point-of-view issues, elevate your language, and much more.
The focus of this course is for you to improve your narrative writing skills, including fiction and nonfiction, such as memoir, autobiography, biography, and personal essays. Molly’s tips and tools throughout the course can help any writer edit their own work with skill and confidence.
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EXCELLENT
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Short, sweet, to the point
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Practical thought on comprehensive edit practice
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Loved it.
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Thank you for that great piece of work.
Listen, listen and listen again
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If you aren't finished with your first draft, then this has advice you don’t need yet, but it's still very useful
Useful and thoughtful
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Solid Guide on Editing and Writing
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I also learned the importance of hiring an outside editor to gain distance and professional quality line editing. Line editing gives it that final polish to make the manuscript publication material, but is also a step that requires a lot of expertise, and is at the very bottom of the editing hierarchy. Therefore, it is best done by a professional, while the higher levels are best done by myself.
great big picture to details editing process
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