From Just Write a Book, a nice guide to editing from the macro and micro perspective.
Editing your fiction helps you to write novels and serials which sell. You want your readers to love your stories, so that they buy your next ebook, and the next. Think of editing as polishing a diamond. In its natural state a diamond is just a dirty rock. When cut and polished, it sparkles.
To sell, your fiction needs to sparkle too. Your editing — cutting and polishing — ensures that it does.
- Start with macro editing: do you have a STORY?
- Cut first, then assess where you need to add
- Where are your BIG scenes? Make them bigger
- Micro editing: introducing characters, enhancing dialogue, etc.
- Are we done yet? Looking for holes in characters and plots
- Now you can edit the words…
