Unlock the Secret Editing Tricks That Can Transform Your Short Story Overnight
Proofread Your Short Story
After you’ve implemented all the beta reader feedback, it really is down to the final stages. Your final draft needs to be as clean as possible. An editor considering your story for an anthology or magazine will let minor mistakes slide, but the story as a whole needs to be readable.
We’re not all grammar know-it-alls, and in truth, we don’t need to be. But you do need to work on the basics.
Now it’s time to get down to the nitpicky edits.
You’re going to look for things like misplaced commas, split infinitives, icky dialogue tags (i.e. too many words that aren’t “said”), -ly words, and -ing words.
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