Your Next Draft
Your Next Draft is the fiction writer's guide to developmental editing. What do you do after your first draft? How do you flesh out flat characters, fill in plot holes, and hook your readers from the first page to the last? What does editing a novel even mean? Developmental editor and book coach Alice Sudlow answers all these questions and more. Each week, she shares the editing strategies she's using with her one-on-one clients so you can put them to use in your own novel. Tune in for tips, tools, and step-by-step guides for the novel editing process.
Your Next Draft
The Top 5 Editing Tips From Your Next Draft in 2023
The year’s most popular editing tip, plus four more strategies I don’t want you to miss.
What’s the best editing tip you’ve learned this year?
If you’ve been listening to Your Next Draft all year, there are quite a few to pick from—fifty, in fact.
So in this episode, I’m taking a look back at this year on Your Next Draft. I’ve selected the top five editing tips from 2023, tips you can put to use in your writing right away.
In it, you’ll hear:
- The most popular editing tip from 2023
- The editing principle I use with every manuscript and every client
- The editing strategy a client pitched me (that has since become one of my favorite tools!)
- And more!
It’s been a great year on the podcast. I can’t wait to share more editing strategies with you in 2024!
Links mentioned in the episode:
- Get my Scene Analysis Worksheet: alicesudlow.com/sceneworksheet
- Find J.D. Edwin’s books: jdedwin.com
- Ep. 8: What Is a Scene? The Ultimate Guide to Write and Edit Amazing Scenes
- Ep. 23: 3 Simple Steps to Edit Absolutely Anything in Your Novel
- Ep. 20: Listen in on a Real-Life Scene Edit with Author and Editor Kim Kessler
- Ep. 33: The 3-Step Formula to Evoke Emotion and Make Your Readers Feel
- Ep. 35: How to Create an Editing Process That Works for You With Author JD Edwin
- Ep. 50: Use This One Editing Tip for Everything You Write
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