• Free

10 Editing Hacks

  • Course
  • 12 Lessons

This free course puts self-editing tasks into an easy-to-follow format. Check off each item before submitting your manuscript to critique partners, beta readers or editors. Most of the tasks are quick and use shortcuts in Word such as Find and Replace. Others are a bit more work-intensive, like culling extraneous adverbs or removing filter words and writing in deeper POV, but will ultimately strengthen your story.

Contents

10 Editing Hacks

Welcome to 10 Editing Hacks
10 Editing Hacks - printable checklist

The easy stuff

Find and Replace
Chapter numbers
Exclamation marks

A deeper dive

Filler words
Dialogue tags
Adverbs
Filter words

The final steps

Spell and grammar checks
Read aloud
Writing tics