Want to add punch to your prose? Follow these 55 simple edits and improve your writing forever! Getting readers past page one, despite your 'explosive, fast-paced, hitting-the-ground-running opening', is what this guide is all about. Applying the 55 easy editing steps to your fiction will allow reviewers and readers to evaluate your novel purely on the strength of your story and not on clumsy and weak prose, overuse of adverbs, repetition, and flabbiness. And in the process, you will learn to become an experienced and competent editor. Use these 55 steps to:
- Find redundant adjectives and overused adverbs
- Banish boring words
- Learn dialogue writing
- Write characters more effectively
- Discover over thirty overused words and phrases such as that, it, up/down, was/were, had, even, got, etc.
- Reduce overuse of exclamations and the ellipsis
- Use italics, quotations, and capitalisation properly
- Target word pairs and homophones
- Improve your proofreading and editing skills
- Handle numbers and time effectively
- ...And discover more about flow, show not tell, writing tenses, dialogue handling and more.
All About Copyediting will not tell you how to write a novel, nor how to write like Tolstoy, or any other author. It will certainly not explain how to write bestselling fiction, how to make money, or guarantee you marketing success. What it will guarantee is to give your novel the best chance it can get in a tough, competitive, and new publishing world.
Autorentext
K.J.Heritage is an international bestselling UK author of crime mystery, sci-fi and fantasy.
His first sci-fi short story, 'ESCAPING THE CRADLE' was runner-up in the 2005 Clarke-Bradbury International Science Fiction Competition. He has also appeared in several anthologies with such self-publishing sci-fi luminaries as Hugh Howey, Michael Bunker and Samuel Peralta.
Kev has done all the requisite 'writery' jobs such as driver's mate, factory gateman, barman, labourer, telesales operative, sales assistant, warehouseman, IT contractor, Student Union President, university IT helpdesk guy, British Rail signal software designer, premiership football website designer, gigging musician, graphic designer, stand-up comedian, sound engineer, improv artist, magazine editor and web journo. Although he doesn't like to talk about it. Mostly.
He was born in the UK in one of the more interesting previous centuries. Originally from Derbyshire, he now lives in the seaside town of Brighton. He is a tea drinker, avid Twitterer (@MostlyWriting), and autistic (ASD) human being.
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