Editing

How to find an editor for your novel: where to find a professional freelance editor, how to choose and hire an editor or story coach.

Find out how you can prepare to work with beta readers so you can get the best results for your manuscript.

At last! A manual for beta reader etiquette--for how beta readers should conduct themselves and how writers, in turn, should respond.

When editorial feedback entails rebuilding a manuscript, one writer struggles with not taking it too personally.

Self-editing isn’t an optional, supplementary stage of writing. It is writing. It is in the edits, in stripping away all that is superfluous, self-indulgent or unclear, that truth begins to emerge

Italics, “Quotation Marks” or CAPITALS? Have you wiped the sweat off your brow yet? It’s a minefield – truly. As with most things in writing, one of the most important rules is to be consistent. …

Sometimes, you feel like your story hangs together pretty well … until you re-read your whole draft. If there’s a tiny inconsistency (like a character changing eye colour half way), that’s pretty easy to fix. Sometimes, though, you’ve got an actually plot hole.

Editing your novel is a fundamental part of the writing process, and yet so many authors find it intimidating and overwhelming.

You've done it. You've finally, triumphantly, typed out "The End." Congratulations! Now comes the hard part: revision. Revising is often more laborious than the

The long, boozy lunches and smoke-filled parties are now part of publishing's past, but has rigorous line-by-line editing of books been lost too, a casualty of the demands of sales and publicity? By Alex Clark

AL Kennedy: The virtues of reworking, taking apart, breaking down, questioning, exploring, forgetting and losing and finding and remembering and generally testing your prose until it shows you what it needs to be

Revision is not a small puddle that you leap over in a couple of months of work. It’s more like the Atlantic Ocean. Pack your steamer trunk and a bunch of snacks because you’re going to need them.