‘Polishing ‘

I am currently editing a novella for older children at the moment – a horror story with a mysterious curse. I am not an expert in revising and editing (or Turd Polishing, I call it), but I do know how t read up on it and apply what I have researched.

The first useful piece of research I did was passed on to me by one of the members of my writing group. It is called Hunting Down the Pleonasm and it is great! The link I’ve provided takes you to a site to download it. However, it was a little bit of a faf, so here is the file itself for you to download:

Vivien Reis is a Youtuber with some great advice on writing. Her videos have an informative style and good content. I’ve linked two such video essays she has done on editing…

I think the main task for me at the moment is to make my manuscript as good as I can before I hand it out to beta readers and then either query a publisher or an editor.

Please let me know if you have some good advice for editing, please let me know.