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easy to follow and useful, A rare thing, a useful and accessible book that shows you how to edit your writing,

This book doesn't tell you how to write, it shows you how to edit, It can be read in less than an hour, but can lead you through weeks of productive enhancement of your work, I've tried The Red Pen way, and my work is better for it, A great resource for writers, This short book on editing is currently available on Kindle Unlimited, Its very basic but nevertheless a good primer for the disciplines of editing, Its definitely one to revisit before an editing session to get in the right frame of mind and progress methodically,

Essentially the method involves going from high level into the details before considering house styles for submissions, To start off, its all about general decisions: does the story come through clearly Are basic decisions correct, i, e. are the characters appropriate for the story, are the POVs right, is the pacing correct, is there an appropriate structure Only once these wider issues are addressed does storyediting switch to line by line editing and then into proofreading.
All these stages have their proper place and the author explains clearly why tasks should be approached in this order,

Although there is nothing new in the individual

tasks, the authors methodological approach is enlightening, This is a good little resource, Anne is the RedPen Way amp shes great

Anne that is a excellent book for me as a Indie writer.

Great tips and excellent classroom skills to enjoy and apply to my own self publishing journeys,
You cant go wrong here,

She also tells you the tricks and trades of writing in Scrivener, I write in Scrivener for windows and am anxiously awaiting for windowsedition of Scrivener to come out,

Anne offers continuous training and updates on most any writing situation, Shes available to you in various applications, so theres no excuses not to follow her and her training,

I highly recommend her,

Thank you Anne Interesting techniques, Some I think I can use, some not so much, Great editing checklist

This is a great editing checklist for those who have finished their first manuscript, There are tips here that would also prove useful for writing in general, Very helpful to compartmentalize the self editing process, I will use these tips for my own editing process, Very comprehensive, a definite must for anyone wanting to write! Some good advice, but on the basic side, She recommends a tenstep process and has a list of questions at the end of each step, I found the questions tedious, so Im not sure how useful this approach is, She seems to assume you have your book meticulously planned out which is awkward for pantsers, Her questions can make you aware of what each step SHOULD address, but there isnt much info on how to find and fix the issues.
Onlypages. I once thought I was decent at finding errors when reading stuff I have written, but this short book opened up a whole new world of improvements and ways to launch my manuscripts farther than I could have taken them before.
I'm almost excited to start going over my current work in progress to see what areas I can improve, Lots of great information packed on every page! Quite basic, I was expecting some more detailed selfediting insights, not broad advice like "Find your voice" or "Check
if your tense is suitable to your plot".


I givebecause the end of each chapter have some useful questions to ask yourself, but I doubt someone will really be able to do a proper seldediting just by reading this book.
Editing the RedPen Way

This is the most concisely written book about selfediting I've ever encountered, The steps are simple and easy to follow, getting you up and editing your work quickly and accurately, Now if only more of the self publishing authors would read this and start using the method, there would be fewer one star reviews bashing authors about spelling and grammatical errors.
This book was well worth the price, Read once, but kept out in order to refer to it every time I'm editing, Highly recommended. Anne Rainbow, RedPen mentor, explains her tried and tested approach to selfediting,

Writing as Jenny Lawson, Anne is an established and traditionally published nonfiction author, and editor, Afteryears in the publishing world, Anne turned her attention to the challenges facing fiction writers,

Aware of the uphill battle and frustrations experienced by writers who received rejection slip after rejection slip, Anne set up her RedPen group in the lates.
Her objective was and still is to help budding writers to learn how to edit their own words, and therefore to maximise their chances of having their stories and novels accepted for publication.


Now, with more writers choosing to selfpublish, Anne is making her selfediting RedPen system available to a wider audience, In the indie publishing world, it's sensible to hire an editor before going to print, but a writer who can selfedit will benefit from lower editing costs.


With her simple threetask system, Anne shows how EDITING The RedPen Way can become a SMART specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and timely route to a polished manuscript.
And, she makes it sound fun!
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