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    612-822-4611

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Self-Edit Your Novel

Self-Edit Your Novel

Fears, David H.

Paperback

Self-Help

ISBN10: 1502438038
ISBN13: 9781502438034
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 19 2014
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.28 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In today's publishing world many writers can neither find nor afford a professional writer. The only editing such writers benefit from is self-editing. Fears argues against the common notion that an independent novelist must hire an editor to turn out a good novel and proposes writers learn the skill set of an editor. He points out the advantages a novelist has with his own work and how to avoid the snow blindness that often afflicts self-editing. He covers micro-level changes of editing at the word/phrase/sentence level, and macro-level revision of larger elements, such as characters, pacing, plot, and dialogue. Fears offers several practices and processes that teach a writer editor skills. There's no promise here of making riches, or becoming a top-notch editor without effort. You'll have to work at it, just like you did to learn the craft of writing fiction. If you're neither a beginner nor a best-selling novelist, this book is for you.

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