The
one thing
you need to do today to make progress on your book launch.
Start the line edit
Effort:
High
Cost:
Free
Deadline:
23 days
Yes! Yes! Yes! The edit we’ve all been waiting for. Finally you get to make that prose sparkle. Make those scenes turn the pages. Bring that world to life.
Go forth. Enjoy.
Recommendations for DIY
If you’re doing fiction, your best friend is Novel Revision Prompts from Ranye Hall’s Writer's Craft series.
Also, now that you get to really play with words, there’s a set of thesauruses by Becca Puglisi and Angela Ackerman in the *Writers Helping Writers* series that every novelist should own. They include titles like The Emotional Thesaurus, The Conflict Thesaurus, and seven others. These are also all available on Kindle Unlimited, but they are priceless. Go get ‘em all.
Or Automate It
For non-fiction, or frankly if you’d rather throw money at the problem, I have a partnership set up with an editor that can do the line edit for you.
Here’s how it works:
upload your manuscript so we can get an exact word count
you’ll get an instant quote based on word count
make the payment, then sit back and wait
Just remember, you’ll have to do a proofread after this as well. So if you’re counting pennies, I’d suggest to DIY the line edit and pay for the proofread instead. Proofreading is generally cheaper.