Author Tips for Editing Your Own Work - video

Jenna Free, editor and writer for Girl Friday Productions, provides some tips for editing your own work. She advises authors to take a break from writing to do a different activity in order to later return to your work with fresh eyes. She suggests looking at your draft in a different way, in a different location, or in a different medium. Read your work from the perspective of an unbiased reader. Read your work aloud. Outline what you've written in subpoints.
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    I always print out copies of my manuscript before moving forward to the next chapter or two. When I go back and read I have found that after I need to strengthen my sentences or delete a whole section; because they don't connect or don't make sense. Thanks for the tips. It does help.

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