Fix Your Damn Book!

ISBN-13: 9781365141478 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 286 str.

James Osiris Baldwin

Opis

Fix Your Damn Book! is a self-help manual for writers who have finished a manuscript - a novel, novella, short story, or serial - and who want to self-edit their work to a professional standard and get it on the market.In this instructional and occasionally hilarious book, James Osiris Baldwin - an author and editor with over 8 years of experience as a freelance and staff editor - explains his technique for painlessly and successfully polishing your manuscript to a perfect glow.Fix Your Damn Book! will guide you through: - The seven essential components of successful editing- Getting into the right headspace to edit your own work- Objectively diagnosing problems in your manuscript- The secrets of developmental editing and line editing- Hacks for sharpening your story, character, and dialogue- Grammar, spelling, punctuation, passive voice and tense- Recruiting and making the most out of your first readers- Proofreading and publishing your finished book