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Editing Fiction at Sentence Level

Hone your novel line craft

Learn how to line edit your book

Fiction is about flow, rhythm, mood, voice and style. But mostly it’s about story. When writers self-edit at line level with confidence, story is elevated and enhanced by the sentence, not buried beneath it.

Editing Fiction at Sentence Level shows you how to hone your line craft so that your narrative and dialogue compel readers to turn the page.

PDF or Kindle Edition | 293 pages | 1 MB | 69,730 words
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Contents

PART 1: INTRODUCTION
  • What this book isn’t
  • What’s different about fiction editing?
  • The different levels of editing

PART 2: CHECKING NARRATIVE
  • The importance of story structure
  • Holding narrative viewpoint
  • Choosing tense
  • Avoiding overwriting
  • Character description
  • Using and abusing filter words
  • Action beats
  • Playing with sentence length
  • Commas, conjunctions and rhythm
  • Anaphora: Purposeful repetition
  • Adverbs and adverbial phrases
  • Dealing with ‘seemed’ and other tentative language
  • Using ‘suddenly’ with caution
  • Free indirect speech
  • Showing versus telling

PART 3: CHECKING DIALOGUE AND THOUGHTS
  • How to write great dialogue
  • Other dialogue problems
  • Punctuating dialogue
  • Dialogue tags
  • Addressing others in dialogue
  • Conveying accents
  • Depicting thoughts

PART 4: PESKY PUNCTUATION
  • Apostrophes
  • Semi-colons
  • Dashes
  • Round brackets

PART 5: IS IT A RULE?
  • Rules versus style preferences
  • The most common myths debunked

PART 6: TRACKING STORY
  • Style sheets
  • World-building wikis

PART 7: INITIAL PREP AND FINAL PROOFS
  • Preparing your book file for editing
  • ​Checking final page proofs​

GLOSSARY OF TERMS
ALLi Partner Member
The Book Designer
SfEP Advanced Professional Member
Member of ACES: The Society of Editing
Judith Butcher Award: Winner 2017
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