All About Copyediting: 55 Easy Edits to Improve Your Writing Skills Forever: 1 (Writing, Editing & Proofreading Skills) - Softcover

Heritage, K J

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1915927021 ISBN 13: 9781915927026

Publisher: Sygasm Publishing, 2023

Synopsis

Want to add punch to your prose? Follow these 55 simple edits and improve your writing forever!

Getting readers past page one, despite your 'explosive, fast paced hitting-the-ground-running opening', is what this guide is all about.

Applying the 55 easy editing steps to your fiction will allow reviewers and readers to evaluate your novel purely on the strength of your story and not on clumsy and weak prose, overuse of adverbs, repetition, and flabbiness. And in the process, you will learn to become an experienced and competent editor.

Use these 55 steps to:

• Find redundant adjectives and overused adverbs
• Banish boring words
• Learn dialogue writing
• Write characters more effectively
• Discover over thirty overused words and phrases such as that, it, up/down, was/were, had, even, got, etc.
• Reduce overuse of exclamations and the ellipsis
• Use italics, quotations, and capitalisation properly
• Target word pairs and homophones
• Improve your proofreading and editing skills
• Handle numbers and time effectively
• ...And discover more about flow, show not tell, writing tenses, dialogue handling and more.

All About Copyediting will not tell you how to write a novel, nor how to write like Tolstoy, or any other author. It will certainly not explain how to write bestselling fiction, how to make money, or guarantee you marketing success. What it will guarantee, is to give your novel the best chance it can get in a tough, competitive, and new publishing world.

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About the Author

"K.J.Heritage's uncanny sense of pacing and story puts him at the forefront of today's speculative fiction writers." - Samuel Peralta, Amazon bestselling author and creator of The Future Chronicles. When K.J.Heritage isn't penning third-person descriptions about himself for online consumption, he's an international bestselling author writing the books he likes to read. From psychological thrillers, crime and mystery to sci-fi and action & adventure. His first short story, 'ESCAPING THE CRADLE' was runner-up in the 2005 Clarke-Bradbury International Science Fiction Competition. His other short stories have appeared in several anthologies with such self-publishing sci-fi luminaries as Hugh Howey, Samuel Peralta and Michael Bunker. K.J.Heritage's short story, CHURCHILL'S ROCK, part of the 'Chronicle Worlds: Legacy Fleet' anthology, will be aboard the Astrobotic's Peregrine Lunar Lander set for launch on the United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur rocket platform bound for the moon in 2022. K.J.Heritage has worked all the requisite 'writer jobs' such as driver's mate, factory gateman, barman, labourer, telesales operative, sales assistant, warehouseman, IT contractor, Student Union President, university IT helpdesk guy, British Rail signal software designer, Premiership football website designer, gigging musician, graphic designer, stand-up comedian, sound engineer, improv artist, magazine editor and web journo... Although he doesn't like to talk about it. Mostly... Maybe a little bit. He was born in the UK in one of the more interesting previous centuries. Originally from Derbyshire, he now lives in the seaside town of Brighton. He is a tea drinker, and autistic (ASD) neurodivergent human being.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sygasm Publishing
• Publication date: 2023
• ISBN 10: 1915927021
• ISBN 13: 9781915927026
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 210