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This book includes:
- Avoiding common mistakes
- What to cut and what not to cut
- How to debug your manuscript
- Some easy ways to improve your descriptions
- The double-editing secret
- Editing from the outline
- How to edit other people's work - and why you should
- How to edit professionally
- How to know when you've done enough
- All about expert reviews
- Fiction-editing essentials and check-list
- How to fool-proof your manuscript
- When and when not to use grammar checkers - and their alternatives
- How to be your own editor
- An instant editing masterclass
- Why your mood is important when you edit
- How (and when) to get other people involved
- The overwriting (and underwriting) ratio and why you need
to know it
- How to turn your book into a page-turner
- How to revitalise failed projects
- What to do if you spot an error after its been published
- Lots of ways of making editing faster and more effective
- And
much more - far too many great ideas to list here!
Sample idea: Competitive editing
Here's something you might like to try.
Offer to edit another writer's work for him, and get
someone else to edit that same piece of writing as well. You're
now in competition with each other to see who can
find the most mistakes.
This is a great way of learning to edit more
effectively and efficiently. The competition element
forces you to scrutinise the writing more closely - and
teaches you to do the same when you edit your
own work.
Both competitors (and/or the author) will need
to agree that the mistakes you've identified
are actually mistakes, of course, not just differences
of style. Some people use more commas than others,
for example, but that doesn't
necessarily mean they're wrong.
This is also a good exercise for writing groups.
Give each member an identical copy of a short
story or article that's not quite up to publication
standard, and get them to mark all the errors
they find with a red pen. They could also suggest other improvements
in style,
rewording, and so on. At the next meeting, analyse the results
and award a prize to whoever found the most genuine
errors and/or made the best improvements. The person
whose writing was being worked on will also have benefited from
some free editing and critiquing. Perhaps each
member could take it in turns to offer up one of their pieces
for a
regular (monthly, quarterly or yearly) editing competition. Or
perhaps one of the
members could write something that deliberately contains several
errors, and everyone
else has to try to spot them.
Alternative product:
You might prefer the complete
Volume 4
(Writing, Editing & Publishing)
Includes: Editing, Getting Ideas, Getting Published,
Overcoming Rejection, Self-publishing, Writer's Block, Writing
870 very clever ideas, 400 pages, £17.99
 
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