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[ostarella]

Fiction Factor Newsletter


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Editing Made Easy by Lee Masterson


http://www.fictionfactor.com/articles/editing.html

Comments

[beckyblack]

Good tips! If I'm editing on screen I also like to change the font to a different one than when I was writing. And make it bigger too, to shorten the lines. fewer words on the line seems to stop my eye sliding along and filling in things that aren't there.

It's incredible though how no matter how many times I reread - and believe me, that's A LOT - stuff still slips through. And when I read it a few months later it leaps out and smacks me between the eyes.

Which it why letting it rest too between writing and editing it good. Gives you more chance of spotting both big and small issues once you have that distance.

[ostarella.livejournal.com]

Which it why letting it rest too between writing and editing it good. Gives you more chance of spotting both big and small issues once you have that distance.

And that's one of my biggest downfalls. I will let something go for a while - like as long as it takes my betas to get back to me :p But I edit as I write, and by the time I finish a story, I can't stand to look at it any more! LOL There have been things I've spotted after posting, and I've corrected the typos, etc., but... for the most part I've been pretty satisfied. I'd be more satisfied, I'm sure, if I would set it aside for a couple weeks or a month and then go over it again, because there are things in some of my stories that I cringe at :p