Editing Anything – DIY Tips – Part One
Start with the Big Stuff! Do your best to distance yourself from the content and to read the manuscript as if you were a stranger reading the material for the first time. Try not to judge it, but to see if it flows smoothly, makes logical transitions, and uses words that will be understood easily by your target audience.
You can make notes, if you need to, but don’t change anything the first time you do a read-through. Otherwise, you could change something in an early section that renders a later section incorrect, and illogical, making an outcome unlikely, irrelevant, or out of character. Continue Reading →
