The Little Book of Self-Editing for Writers [NOOK Book]

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How to Edit Yourself and Why You Should

This is not a book about why you don’t need an editor. This is a book about first editing your own work to the best of your ability, so that when you hand your manuscript over to an editor, it is as free of placeholder writing, as devoid of verbal crutches, as lean and clean as you know how to make ...
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The Little Book of Self-Editing for Writers

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Overview

How to Edit Yourself and Why You Should

This is not a book about why you don’t need an editor. This is a book about first editing your own work to the best of your ability, so that when you hand your manuscript over to an editor, it is as free of placeholder writing, as devoid of verbal crutches, as lean and clean as you know how to make it.

Good editing by the writer—before an outside editor ever sees your work—can make the difference between an okay book and a good one, or between a good book and a great one.
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Editorial Reviews

Amazon Reader Review
...McKenna offers a comprehensive approach to the necessary writerly discipline of editing your own work....What this *is* is a book about crafting the most polished, powerful prose possible -- so that when you do hire an editor you aren't wasting your money fixing things you could have & should have fixed on your own....A quick skim will improve your writing, your writing process, and make your rewriting time more efficient. And you can come back to it over and over.
Amazon Reader Review
I edited this book, and then promptly began using it in my own writing and editing. I truly believe that writers who read and use this book will produce stronger, tighter, cleaner manuscripts and will become stronger first-draft writers in the process. The printable checklist boils the concepts in the book down to a step-by-step search-and-destroy guide and places it next to your keyboard for easy reference. Add this tool to your writing/editing toolbox.
Amazon Reader Review
Even in today's world of self-publishing, good editing can mean the difference between an okay story and a great one. Mistakes matter and it falls on the author to get rid of them before sending their work out. Whether sharing it with a publisher or a reader, we need to put our best foot forward and The Little Book of Self-Editing for Writers can help. Concise, yet descriptive, following this guide can only make your writing stronger.
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Product Details

  • BN ID: 2940014607834
  • Publisher: Ravenscourt Press
  • Publication date: 7/12/2012
  • Series: Little Books for Writers , #1
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Sales rank: 718,957
  • File size: 653 KB

Meet the Author

Bridget McKenna was born a hellish long time ago in Las Vegas, Nevada. She wrote her first--alas, unpublished--novel at the age of nine. In pencil. After taking a few years off to pursue other career options, she returned to the fiction writing racket with the publication of her first short story in 1972.

Since then she has written and edited fiction, nonfiction, computer games, websites, and to-do lists. Bridget has been shortlisted for the Hugo, Nebula, and Shamus awards, and has never taken one home. She lives in Seattle, where she reads, writes, games, watches more than her share of British TV shows, and continues her search for the ultimate butter masala.
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  • Posted December 17, 2012

    The Little Book of Self-Editing for Writers is a very well done

    The Little Book of Self-Editing for Writers is a very well done book. It was short, but informative and helpful, cutting right to the chase. It wasn't patronizing or overly descriptive in its content, nor did it hold out on information.

    McKenna used specific examples when discussing the do's and don't's when writing, and I found it's something to keep on hand, especially as a writer myself. I particularly liked the line where she told the readers that even editors, when they write, need editors. It's true.

    Self editing your own work is never going to come out perfectly. As a writer, our brains know what we meant to say and often we mentally correct the sentence as we read it, making it more difficult to spot mistakes. However, this book points out some very decent ways to tighten up a manuscript, especially if you're a self editing writer.

    It definitely gets a five of five stars, and I recommend authors pick this up to keep on hand.

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