Sunday 13 December 2020

Self-Editing and Self-Publishing

 

The biggest problem with self-editing, is that you know what you meant to write, so when you read through your work, your eyes tend to slide over the errors and submit to your brain what it expected to see. Paper copies of your work are better for editing. You will pick up more errors. Why? I honestly cannot answer that. It just seems to be the way. Once you have edited your on-line version of your work, get a printed copy, order a copy on KDP, and read it. Once you have read it, drop it into a program like Natural Reader and have it read it back to you. Then get the paper version and read it aloud with expression. Make the changes. Do it all again as many times as it takes until you are no longer finding errors. There will still be some, but with hard work you will weed out most of them. And trust me, your readers will find the rest!

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