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Editing the Breakout Bestseller
The Editing Process
Order of Edits
Editors Need Editors, Too
Approaching Edits from Different Angles
Developmental Rewrites
Does Your Novel Need a Rewrite?
Planning a Novel Rewrite
Book Lengths
Fleshing Out Your Novel
Planning a Chapter Rewrite
Chapter Level Revisions
Content
Pacing
Hooks
Chapter Lengths
Paragraph Breaks (and White Space)
Point of View Concepts
POV Level Edits for First Person
POV Level Edits for Third Person
Editing for Alternating POV
More Exploration into POV and Headhopping
An Introduction to Head Hopping
POV Gone Wrong
How Do I Tell the Story Without All the Heads?
Changing POV isn't Always Bad, But it isn't Easy.
Proper Mechanical POV Shifts
Deeper Point of View
Deepening Point of View
Reveal Character Through Point of View
Character-Appropriate Descriptions
Fixing Passive Voice
Is, Are, Was, Were
Overuse of "It"
Passive Descriptions
BONUS: Passive Settings
Line Edits
The Common POV Emotional Crutch
Clutch Words
And, So, Because, But
Adverbs
Time Traveling Phrases
Continuity
Dialogue Edits
Said Bookisms
He, She, and The Unnamed
Thought Attributes
Punctuation for Dialogue Speaker Tags
Punctuation for Dialogue Action Tags
Better Dialogue Action Tags
Interrupted Speech (The Basics)
Interrupted Speech (Advanced - Approach with Caution)
Buried Dialogue
Splitting Dialogue
Clear Turn Taking in Dialogue (Part 1)
Clear Turn Taking in Dialogue (Part 2) (30:36)
Non Verbal Responses
Recapping Dialogue Punctuation and Tag Placements
Rhythm of Prose (Hold the Purple)
Introduction to Rhythm
Writers Can Have Rhythm, Too
Purple Doesn't Sound Pretty (Just Pompous)
Mechanical Edits (Sentence Styles)
Independent and Dependent Clauses
Run On Sentences
Fragments
Introductory Clauses
Parenthetical Phrases
Mechanical Edits (Narrative Grammar)
Ambiguous Pronouns
Writing Numbers
Participles and Participial Phrases
Subject-Verb Agreement
Compound Sentences
Misplaced Modifiers
Dangling Modifiers
Gerunds
Mechanical Edits (Punctuation)
Comma Splices
Comma Splits
Correct Comma Placements
Comma Misuse and Abuse
Semicolons and Colons
Hyphens
Apostrophes
Voice and Style
What is Voice?
Editing Tools
Which Tools Are Worth It?
Where to Next?
Continuing Your Author Career From Here
Recapping Dialogue Punctuation and Tag Placements
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