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Index
Fix Your Damn Book!
Contents
Introduction
My story
A note on self-editing
Pitfalls and challenges
So, where do we go from here?
A caveat on editing as a set of ‘rules’
First steps
Airplanes and editing: a metaphor
Rewriting and redrafting
How to destroy your manuscript
Setting healthy goals
Dealing with subjective perspective
The four-step process
The fifth elements: formatting, read-alouds, and beta readers
Style guides
Style guides for English-language general publishing
Diagnosis
Formatting a manuscript for editing
Summaries and query letters
The Ideal Synopsis
Creating a Plot Planner
Chunking and marking chapters
The diagnostic run-through
Developmental editing
Finding and identifying your ‘voice’
Improving voice
The Three-Act Structure 3: Son of Three Act Structure
Chunk #1 – The Beginning (Chunk #1)
Middle A: First Half of Middle (Chunk #2)
Middle B: The End of the Middle (Chunk #3)
The End: Crisis and Climax (Chunk #4)
The editor’s toolbox: developmental editing
Line editing
The Three Cs of writing and editing
Sonic rhetorical devices
Line editing: the nitty-gritty
The three tension killers
‘Was’
Tentative clauses
Narrative distance
Checking for and strengthening emotional power in scenes
The use of ‘said’ and other (ad)verbs
Vague sentences and that other thing
Dialogue
Miscellaneous line editing issues
Copy Editing: a quick and dirty guide
Formatting your manuscript for copy editing
Macro-editing: bulk corrections for small mistakes
Chunking for copy editing
Evil perfect tense
General tense issues (not inclusive of perfect tense)
Sounds and effects
Micro-editing checklist
Wrap-up
Care and feeding of betas
Different kinds of beta reader
What a beta does and doesn’t do
Recruiting and guides
Limitations of beta readers
Aftermath
Post-editing: proofreading and formatting
Publishing Tips
The end...?
Appendix A: The Dread Query
Appendix B: software for writing and editing
Drafting
Compiling, revising, and structuring
Editing
Formatting
Appendix C: Developmental editing to address sexism
Appendix D: resources for writers and editors
Find my fiction
Hire me!
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