Editors craft books to follow the contours of an author’s voice. Insight, empathy, and artistic judgment are still best delivered by a human editor.
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What to Do with all those Edits
If you have editing in hand and you’re stuck, you’re about to learn more from the life of writing. Revision is everything, and other voices change your creations.
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Complete edits will demand revisions
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What kind of writer needs an editor?
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Do you develop, or get edited?
Editing assignments serve many needs of a book. Development means creating a full draft. Editing means making that draft better.
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Edits in full demand your revisions
It’s going to be mighty hard, maybe impossible, to create a book that people will recommend without first revising it. I believe many of us will never live to see attractive and enticing AI revision of fiction.
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Line edit, or line drive edit?
When you ask for a line-drive edit, you ask your editor to drive to the finish. Problems with character motives or consistency melt away with the work an editor does in a line-drive.
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How to avoid a too-big book
Why, you must ask yourself, is that Big Book so essential to your story? Be honest about whether what’s creating the bloat is really world-class scenarios that would spice up any narrative.
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