Editing tips, part five

National Novel Editing Month (NaNoEdMo) is drawing to a close.  If you've been participating, you should be at nearly fifty hours of editing.  If not, there's still time to finish.  Throughout the course of the month, you've read about different editing tips: reading your story multiple times, getting outside reader opinions, reading your story aloud, and knowing your common mistakes.  With all the editing you have to do to a story, though, how do you know when you're done?


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Editing Tips, part four

Everyone makes mistakes in writing.  By editing, you correct those mistakes and help your story to be the best it can be.  You can read through your work, let others read it, and even read it aloud to edit your story.  But knowing yourself and your writing skills can be another good way to help your editing.


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Editing Tips, part three

In part one of Editing Tips, you learned about one process for editing, which uses three passes of a story.  In part two, you learned the benefits of having others read your work.  This week, you'll learn the benefits of reading your story aloud.


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Editing Tips, part two

You know it's important to edit your work, even if self-editing is difficult for you.  After all, you want to make your story (or article or poem) the best it can be.  But sometimes, no matter how many times you go through your writing, you could miss errors or mistakes.  Since you spend so much time working on your stories, you can become too close to them, and that's where the problem arises.


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What is National Novel Editing Month?

Editing is a task many writers dread.  After all, the writing is the fun part.  Creating new worlds and characters, coming up with dialogue, and resolving conflict are all part of the excitement of the writer's world.  But once the story is on paper, it requires editing in order to make it the best it can be.  Fortunately, there's support for editors to help encourage them to reread, revise, and rewrite their novels!


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