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Improve Your Writing: Become a Demanding Self-Editor

Jerry Jenkins

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May 16, 2017

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Being a demanding self-editor is a must if you want to be the best writer you can be. What's the point of pouring weeks, months, or years into a manuscript, then settling for something other than your very best work?

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What’s Worse: Tangential, Rambling, Or Missing Content?

Dawn Field

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March 10, 2017

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Your first draft might be a brain dump, so it's on you to rid subsequent drafts of holes, sleeping pills and imposters. What's your Achilles' heel: tangential, rambling, or missing content?

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A “Fresh Eyes” Reader Can Save Manuscript Errors

Suzanne Paschall

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January 17, 2017

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If you’re asked to be a fresh eyes reader by a friend or colleague who’s writing a book, you are being given an honor, a privilege, and most important, a responsibility. Don’t take it lightly, but be sure to enjoy it along the way!

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Life After NaNoWriMo: The Book Revision Process

Grant Faulkner

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December 29, 2016

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NaNoWriMo’s Executive Director, Grant Faulkner, joined our December #BBchat Twitter Chat to discuss the revision process and what next steps writers should take with their novel in order to be successful.

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How to be a good beta reader

Dawn Field

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August 12, 2016

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When you read for an author, what do you offer? These eight considerations form a kind of code of conduct that can help a writer and beta reader get the most from one another.

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Getting good feedback from beta readers

Dawn Field

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July 22, 2016

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In an ideal world, your book's beta readers will give you feedback on these eight points. It helps if you ask them for this specific criticism in advance.

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Editing and Revision Promises With Grant Faulkner

Lucy Briggs

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February 1, 2016

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Grant Faulkner joined our January #BBchat to talk about editing after NaNoWriMo and the importance of “revision promises.”

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