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THE COPY EDITING PROCESS

We’ve just completed a major structural edit and a continuity edit on a novel. By now, all the action and character development in your...

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What the new year holds: goals and resolutions

I always begin my new year with goals, not resolutions. New year’s resolutions can be a huge thing but I find they don’t work unless...

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Step-by-step guide to a major structural edit. Step 4: personalise your structure, create an outline

What is it about your story that makes it stand out from others? Make this individuality shine through from the bones – the structure....

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Structural edit step-by-step guide. Step 3: mapping the scene map and structure to character arcs

At this point in the editing process, I thought I could start working on the MS again. I didn’t. I made myself pause and consider...

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Step-by-step guide to a major structural edit. Step 2: mapping the scene map to a structure

A step-by-step guide to a major structural edit. Step 2: mapping the scene map to a structure.

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Step-by-step guide to a major structural edit. Step 1: create a scene map.

A step-by-step guide to a major structural edit. Step 1: create a scene map