A growing list of resources on how to revise and edit your own work:
- Step Away and Let it Sit
- Find a Great Beta Reader
- Join a Critique Group
- Organize your Novel Edits
- Revise your manuscript (this Self-Directed FREE 30 Day Workshop is a goldmine)
- Try the 10 Rs of Revisions
- Replace VERY with these alternate words
- Beware of adjectives and cut adverbs
- Read everything out loud or have someone read your story out loud to you
- Check the pacing and illustration potential
- Make sure your backstory/set-up is no more than 10% of the manuscript
- Browse these greats posts on editing and also these on revising your manuscript
- Check out my Master Course on PB Writing and Editing
