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Get 3 chapters from Self-Editing Essentials for Fiction

Story Pass Scene Pass Writing Pass Technical Pass
  • Follow a Plot Structure
  • Establish and escalate the central conflict
  • Create cause-and-effect chains
  • Ensure plot continuity
  • Organize the timeline effectively
  • Make characters believable
  • Ensure characters are dynamic
  • Create good secondary characters
  • Craft strong scene entry and exit points
  • Structure scenes with action and reaction
  • Build conflict and stakes at the scene level
  • Generate microtension
  • Deepen interiority and close the narrative distance
  • Avoid head-hopping
  • Master show and tell
  • Craft effective exposition
  • Delete unnecessary explanations
  • Strengthen dialogue
  • Refine dialogue tags and action beats
  • Strengthen word choice
  • Ensure good sentence fluency
  • Eliminate excess "be" verbs
  • Correct easily confused words
  • Ensure correct use of periods and commas with dialogue
  • Ensure correct use of ellipses and em dashes in dialogue
  • Fix common comma errors
  • Fix dangling modifiers

Get 3 free chapters from Self-Editing Essentials for Nonfiction

Content Pass Organization Pass Writing Pass Technical Pass
  • Create an effective introduction
  • Strengthen chapter hooks
  • Delete unnecessary repetition
  • Add necessary information
  • Ensure reader-friendly content
  • Align genre and audience expectations
  • Ensure logical order
  • Refine headings and subheadings
  • Strengthen or add transitions
  • Ensure effective paragraph breaks
  • Ensure good sentence fluency
  • Eliminate excess "be" verbs
  • Reduce wordiness
  • Maintain consistent tone
  • Ensure accurate reading level
  • Correct easily confused words
  • Fix common comma errors
  • Correct unnecessary capitalization
  • Revise misplaced modifiers
  • Verify source attribution