Joe Wisinski

A Professional Guide to Editing Your Own Writing* Joe Wisinski

You've finished writing a book or story, and that's great. But now it's time for the next step. Contrary to some opinion, the next step is not publishing your work. It's not even sending it to an editor. The next step is self editing, and that's what this book teaches you. You'll learn how to tighten your writing, handle tough problems, use punctuation correctly, and much more. Chapter titles are: Chapter 1: Introduction to EditingChapter 2: Preparing to EditChapter 3: Editing BasicsChapter 4: Tightening your WritingChapter 5: PunctuationChapter 6: Capitalization, Numbers, AbbreviationsChapter 7: Bold, Italics, UnderlinesChapter 8: Parts of SpeechChapter 9: Three ProblemsChapter 10: The Editor/Writer RelationshipChapter 11: Guarding Against LibelChapter 12: Free Editing HelpWeb Resource