Editing is a process, not a single pass. My roadmap:
1. Structural editing
2. Stylistic/line edit
3. Copy edit
4. Proofread
Not every manuscript needs every step, but the right sequence makes revision feel manageable.
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Second in revising my long-referenced #grammar guide - but easily most confused and confusing - #commas!
Sing it with me - comma, comma, comma, chameleoooon
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#writing #amwriting #writingtip #revising #editing #publishing #professionalism!
For those of us who were formally trained in creative writing, have you put your work in an AI checker and been insulted at the insinuation that your work was 86% AI written?
I know they aren't accurate but it's really unsettling.
#authorsky #writers #revising #writersofblusky
Second in revising my long-referenced #grammar guide - but easily most confused and confusing - #commas!
Sing it with me - comma, comma, comma, chameleoooon
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#writing #amwriting #writingtip #revising #editing #publishing #professionalism!
That feeling when #revising finally finds its groove and I can stop banging my head against the wall!
#flow #writing #picturebooks
✍️ Revisions on the new project are underway. ✍️
I really love the editing process. I approach it systematically, one pass at a time, searching for specific items: voice pass, stakes pass, places to sprinkle in more of this or that.
Very exciting. 👏👏
How do you approach #editing and #revising?
Authors, writers and editors:
What are the resources that have made the biggest impact on your writing?
I'm asking about books, courses, videos, mentors - be specific!
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I don’t just need “comfort food” these days. I need these “WTF is going right now?” Owls that fully share in my wide spectrum of emotions as I revise my novel in a time where everyone is questioning everything & are we all have an existential crisis…but at least we still have sugar.
#revising #write
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FORD #revising
1 week remaining until my #deadline to finish this #rewrite.
45 of 51 chapters completed
11,933 words removed
I think I might actually make it! 😲
#Writing #Revising #Editing
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A five star review for a sunflower bandana at PetSmart, which was unfortunately a little small but still good quality, writes Aveline of Nov Voronova. Her cat Arkady preferred the tuna churu they included for free, though! Five stars.
Looks like kohl_a doesn't exactly have an original opinion on the Lord of the Rings movies in this Letterboxd review - although he does suggest taking a goshawk instead of an eagle! And we agree - it is a cool movie, and Pippin is the best. Five stars.
From the sounds of this Amazon review, we mush have a very experienced twitcher on our hands. Matthias Hill from the Free Cities (wherever that is) has some suggested additions for the next edition of All The Birds Of The World, namely the greater birds of prey. Still, four stars isn't bad!
Judging by this comment from YouTube, it sounds like @Reet__16 has Christine McVie's Songbird on repeat. Who can blame her?
Wait, how did these four get internet access?
#UnhingedPit #YA #F #Ornithopunk #WIP #Revising #RavenQueensFlight #YesIKnowThatsNotHowHashtagsWork #ButThatsTheNameOfTheBook #WaitThisAllFeelsStrangelyFamiliar #CheckOutMyPinnedPost
Just finishing up my first big picture revision of my #shrike #WIP in time for #RevPit. It doesn't feel quite as insane as my usual zero drafts (could I be learning?), which is nice, but we all know the first revision is just the beginning.
#revising #YA #Fantasy #Horror
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#Revising Accountability Post
Today I cut about 3,600 words from my MS, which bring my total to 7,241 out of the 30,000 I’m trying to cut.
#Writing #Editing
Going so slowly it's driving me mad, but 10/128 pages done (only because a few needed no changes).
#revising
"Think of dialogue scenes as having three main modes:
✅ Dialogue (what characters say)
✅ Action/Description (what characters do and see)
✅ Interiority (what characters think)
"You need all three, but the ratios matter enormously."
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HOT OFF THE PRESS! Dive into the latest article on the blog. Come back and tell us: What is your biggest takeaway? How will it change your writing process?
Writing to Market Isn't Chasing Trends
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Villa with camera lens overlay showing “recording” Lights, CamBot, Bloodbath Adult Speculative Sci Fi Psychological Horromance LAST CHANCE MATCH Now revising with WriteHive
Welcome to LAST CHANCE MATCH! A gov’t-funded dating show where the deadly game play of SQUID GAME + tech horror of BLACK MIRROR meets the summer romance of LOVE ISLAND.
𝘼𝙧𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙤'𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙞𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧?
#questpit #w #revising #A #S #SF #R #H #D
Early Magic; images: bottles and vials on a shelf, a dark forest path, a magical book, a young woman with a surfboard, a witch walking away through a field.
When you're revising, and suddenly a random detail from three drafts ago reveals its true purpose to YOU, the author.
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Background: wet ferns with blood splatter Words overtop: LIGHTS, CAMBOT, BLOODBATH LAST CHANCE MATCH ADULT SPECULATIVE SCI FI PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROMANCE NOW REVISING WITH WRITEHIVE
Background: wet ferns with blood splatter Words overtop: The Pitch Welcome to the inaugural season of Last Chance Match, a government-funded dating show for the soulmateless to find their other half. Set in a tropical location, eighteen hopeful singles will compete for the chance to have a soulmate and all the benefits that come with it such as: free healthcare and education, better job opportunities and exemption from soulmateless extermination at thirty. Due to limited resources and population control, only three couples can win. Are you ready to find the one who’s to die for? 28-year-old soulmateless Cera thinks the opportunity could represent a second chance until the show takes a dark turn and a fellow contestant is killed by the robot host. The infuriatingly attractive but mysterious Ryde swears he’ll get Cera home safely so long as they remain coupled to protect one another from elimination. But the fatal games they play for the nation’s entertainment pick the contestants off one by one, leaving Cera and Ryde to fight for their happily ever after—and to make it out alive.
Background: wet ferns with blood splatter Words overtop: Themes & Tropes - Touch her and die MMC - Soulhates to Soulmates - What if divorce was eliminated and the government told you who your soulmate was? - head rolling twists - forced proximity - found family (then break it apart) - slow burn romance - genre blend sci fi dystopian horromance - survival of the fittest government mentality
Background: wet ferns with blood splatter Words overtop: The Comps: Media: SQUID GAME, BLACK MIRROR, LOVE ISLAND: The deadly gameplay of SQUID GAME and the futuristic horror of BLACK MIRROR meets the summer romance of LOVE ISLAND Books: Hide - Kiersten White, The Compound - Aisling Rawle, The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells The eerie prose and romance arcs of Kiersten White, the dystopian dating show of THE COMPOUND and the frightening use of bots in THE MURDERBOT DIARIES
Dear Citizen of Calasca,
We're happy to inform you that you've been selected to join us on Last Chance Match. Congratulations! A CivilBot will pick you up shortly. We look forward to seeing you soon.
𝘼𝙧𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙤'𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙞𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧?
#questpit #w #revising #A #S #SF #R #H #D
