Editing is probably one of the most important tasks when writing a book—aside from the writing itself—and one that most authors either dismiss or simply don’t like to do. We get that, truly! It’s hard to go back over what you’ve written and read and read and read again. But editing is also an essential part of the writing process. It will elevate your work and ensure that what you meant to write is actually what your readers will read. There are two parts to editing–no, it’s not all commas and semicolons.

In this week-long course, we’ll go from the big picture to the little details:

Lesson 1: It’s English Class Again:
How to find the major turning points and important beats in your own manuscript, and tweak them into the right places.

Lesson 2: Character Development:
Are your characters dynamic? Are they truly growing throughout the story?

Lesson 3: Line Editing:
Where do you show and where do you tell? Can you deepen that POV just a little more? What darlings should you kill, and what scenes need to be expanded

Lesson 4: Sentence Structure:
Misplaced modifiers, dialogue tags, and run-on sentences. Just because Jane had page-long sentences doesn’t mean you should, too.

Lesson 5: The Dreaded Punctuation:
Tips and tricks for placing commas, common semicolon goofs, and idiot-proof capitalization rules.