Improve Your Writing: Become a Demanding Self-Editor

Jerry Jenkins

May 16, 2017

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?

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

Dawn Field

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March 10, 2017

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?

A “Fresh Eyes” Reader Can Save Manuscript Errors

Suzanne Paschall

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January 17, 2017

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!

Life After NaNoWriMo: The Book Revision Process

Grant Faulkner

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December 29, 2016

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.

How to be a good beta reader

Dawn Field

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August 12, 2016

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.

Getting good feedback from beta readers

Dawn Field

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July 22, 2016

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.