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19 Self-Editing Tips For Your Writing

Posted on February 4, 2017 by Elle Knowles

As all authors know, editing is NOT the fun part of writing. If you are FINALLY at the editing stage of your novel, these tips should be on your to-do editing list! Thanks for the tips Jacque!

A Writer's Path

pencil self editing

by Jacqui Murray

Now that I’ve published my first novel, To Hunt a Sub, I can say from experience that writing it and editing it took equally long periods of time (and marketing is just as involved). After finishing the final rough draft (yeah, sure) and before emailing it to an editor, I wanted it as clean possible. I searched through a wide collection of self-editing books like these:

The Novel Writer’s Toolkit by Bob Mayer

Self-editing for Fiction Writers by Renni Browne

The Marshall Plan for Novel Writing by Evan Marshall

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About Elle Knowles

Elle Knowles lives in the Florida Panhandle with her husband and off-at-college-most-of-the-time son. She has four daughters, one son, and eleven beautiful grandchildren. 'Crossing the Line' is her first novel. The sequel 'What Line' is a work in progress. Recently published is Coffee-Drunk Or Blind - a nonfiction story of homesteading in the Alaska wilderness with her parents and four siblings, told through letters by her mother and remembered accounts from the family.

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  1. Sheryl | February 11, 2017 at 8:32 am

    Thanks for sharing the link. Editing is so important.

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