Unlock the Secret Editing Tricks That Can Transform Your Short Story Overnight

STEP 4:

Rewrite.

This is a structural edit. Don’t get bogged down in pretty prose or amazing descriptions. You’re making the bones of this story work right now.

Fleshing out comes later.

Once you’ve got the big chunks taken care of and things are starting to shape up into something that resembles a solid story, you can move on to smaller edits.

Look at the Small Picture

I still consider this stage to be part of the second draft, but some would call it a third.

You’ve rewritten, cut, added, and restructured your first draft at this point. Now you’re going to look at some prose and rework that.

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