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    The Tidy Guide to Self-Editing Your Novel: Tidy Guides, #2
    The Tidy Guide to Self-Editing Your Novel: Tidy Guides, #2
    The Tidy Guide to Self-Editing Your Novel: Tidy Guides, #2
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    The Tidy Guide to Self-Editing Your Novel: Tidy Guides, #2

    By Rachel Aukes

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    You've written a novel. Now what?

    The Tidy Guide to Self-Editing Your Novel brings you a no-nonsense approach to revise and polish your book. In this guide, you'll learn how to…

    • Self-edit your novel with a calm, motivated mindset
    • Polish your story so that it shines above the competition

    The Tidy Guide to Self-Editing Your Novel is a quick 30-minute read that's jam-packed with information essential for writers at any stage in their careers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWaypoint Books
    Release dateFeb 18, 2019
    ISBN9781386808053
    The Tidy Guide to Self-Editing Your Novel: Tidy Guides, #2
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    Rachel Aukes

    Rachel Aukes (@RachelAukes on Wattpad) is the author of 100 Days in Deadland, which made Suspense Magazine’s Best of 2013 list. Rachel lives near Des Moines with her husband and an incredibly spoiled sixty-pound lap dog. When not writing, she can be found flying old airplanes and planning for the zombie apocalypse. For more information, visit RachelAukes.com or find her on Twitter as @RachelAukes.

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      The Tidy Guide to Self-Editing Your Novel - Rachel Aukes

      The Tidy Guide to Self-Editing Your Novel

      THE TIDY GUIDE TO SELF-EDITING YOUR NOVEL

      The clutter-free, 30-minute course for polishing your book without going crazy

      RACHEL AUKES

      Waypoint BooksWaypoint Books LLC

      THE TIDY GUIDE TO SELF-EDITING YOUR NOVEL

      Edition 1.0

      Copyright 2019 Rachel Aukes.

      All rights reserved.

      Reproduction in whole or part of this publication without express written consent is prohibited.

      Please consider leaving a review wherever you bought the book, or telling your friends about it, to help spread the word. Thank you for supporting the author’s work.

      Cover Design by Evernight Designs.

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      Contents

      Introduction

      Why is self-editing so hard?

      Round 1. Step back to see the big picture

      Round 2. Step in to fix line by line

      Round 3. Read aloud to make your story shine

      What comes after self-editing

      Also Available in the Tidy Guide Series

      Appendix A. Storyboard for Fringe Runner

      Appendix B. Self-Editing Checklist

      Appendix C. Sample Personal Style Sheet

      The Tidy Guide Series by Rachel Aukes

      Series by Rachel Aukes

      About the Author

      Introduction

      You’ve written a novel. This is a huge accomplishment, and you should be very proud. Far less than one percent of the world’s population achieves this milestone. You may feel excited to proceed with the publishing process, but don’t send your masterpiece to an editor—or click publish on Amazon—quite yet.

      The digital age has brought us e-books and opened new publishing opportunities. But with over one million books published every year, your novel needs to stand out from the rest to get the attention it deserves. First impressions matter.

      If you want to sell your novel to a publishing house, editors know that a polished manuscript is a sign of a professional author. (Note: A manuscript is a draft of a novel before it travels through the publishing process and becomes a book.) And when editors have dozens, sometimes hundreds, of manuscripts waiting in their slush piles, they may reject a story simply because it’s hidden under typos.

      Self-editing is important in

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