A Professional Guide to Editing Your Own Writing*

*Or Anyone Else's

You’ve finished writing a book or story, and that’s great. But now it’s time for the next step. Contrary to some opinion, the next step is not publishing your work. It’s not even sending it to an editor. The next step is self editing, and that’s what this book teaches you. You’ll learn how to tighten your writing, handle tough problems, use punctuation correctly, and much more. Chapter titles are: Chapter 1: Introduction to Editing Chapter 2: Preparing to Edit Chapter 3: Editing Basics Chapter 4: Tightening your Writing Chapter 5: Punctuation Chapter 6: Capitalization, Numbers, Abbreviations Chapter 7: Bold, Italics, Underlines Chapter 8: Parts of Speech Chapter 9: Three Problems Chapter 10: The Editor/Writer Relationship Chapter 11: Guarding Against Libel Chapter 12: Free Editing Help Web Resources