Self-Editing Fiction That Sells
Discover Professional Techniques to Improve What You've Already Written
Author: Lorena Goldsmith
The book you're writing might be a good book. But could it be better?
Includes intuitive exercises that will help the reader to locate the writing that needs editing in their work, from unnecessary verbs to ineffective plots, from 'telling not showing', to dealing with an under-developed villain, and more. Also helps writers to market themselves more effectively to agents, publishers, and ultimately their readers.
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The book you're writing might be a good book. But could it be better?
Includes intuitive exercises that will help the reader to locate the writing that needs editing in their work, from unnecessary verbs to ineffective plots, from 'telling not showing', to dealing with an under-developed villain, and more. Also helps writers to market themselves more effectively to agents, publishers, and ultimately their readers.
Description
Writing fiction is different to editing fiction. Each activity requires a separate frame of mind. Writing is creative thinking, editing is critical thinking. When writing, all you worry about is the narrative flow, not the consistency of point of view or the number of adverbs in your manuscript.
Self-editing Fiction That Sells will teach you the necessary frame of mind to sit yourself in 'opposition' to your manuscript, as an editor would do, and improve it through structured editing and rewriting.
About the Author
Lorena Goldsmith is a literary and publishing consultant. She works with individual authors to develop their scripts to the best of their potential as well as helping new publishers to start up and develop their books and list. Lorena will be writing 12 columns for Writing Magazine to coincide with publication of this book. She lives in Cheshire.
Writing fiction is different to editing fiction. Each activity requires a separate frame of mind. Writing is creative thinking, editing is critical thinking. When writing, all you worry about is the narrative flow, not the consistency of point of view or the number of adverbs in your manuscript. Self-editing Fiction That Sells will teach you the necessary frame of mind to sit yourself in 'opposition' to your manuscript, as an editor would do, and improve it through structured editing and rewriting.
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