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So you finished writing a book. Congratulations! And now sit down and let’s get to work. If you’ve been following me on this series, you already know that there are four levels of editing a book needs to go through to make sure it’s polished and ready to be viewed by the naked eye: Developmental Editing Line Editing Copyediting Proofreading Ideally, you’d hire professional editors to help you with all these editorial processes, but what if you don’t have the funds? I’ve got y

So you’ve finished writing your manuscript, thinking that the hard work is behind you, but then it comes creeping up from the shadows like a hungry trash-panda at night: editing. If you’ve followed me along for this series of articles, you’ll know by now that editing isn’t a one-and-done process but a series of revisions and polishing work your book needs before it is ready to be viewed by the naked eye. This series of revisions consists of: Developmental Editing Line Editing

You sat on your bum, wrote consistently, tuned into your inspiration, planned, plotted, pantsed, and danced around to summon the muses (or just built a habit, because muses can't be trusted), and finished a book. And now comes the real work—editing. But there are multiple levels of editing, and not all writers can hire a professional editor (not to mention 4 of them). So how can you self-edit on a budget? In the previous post, we talked about developmental editing on a budget

You finished writing your first draft. Congrats! But before your messy, passionate, and possibly brilliant first draft is ready to be published in any way or form, it needs to be polished like a diamond until it shines. And this polishing means editing. The problem is what do you do when you can’t afford an editor? Many writers tend to think of editing as this one-in-all stop, when in fact, there are different levels of editing a book needs to undergo: Developmental editing L

Last winter, as I was still busy preparing my debut book for release, I happened to stumble upon a conversation with a local indie-author who owned his own small publishing company and claimed to be an authority in the field. “How many times did you rewrite your book?” he asked me. “Do you mean how many times I edited it?” I replied, explaining that there were multiple rounds of beta-reader feedback, changes, tweaks, and lots of grammar checks with Grammarly. But our guy was