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Self-Editing Techniques That Make Books Sell

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  • Updated 7/2017
4.7
(66 Ratings)
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Course Information

Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
0 Hour(s) 33 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
Karen Crowell
Rating
4.7
(66 Ratings)

Course Overview

Self-Editing Techniques That Make Books Sell

Transform Your Writing from Good to Great

This course will teach you simple, yet effective self-editing techniques that will improve your success as a writer. Whether you have already written a book, would like to try writing a book, or just enjoy writing, you will learn to eliminate unnecessary words and phrases while strengthening your story. When you apply the techniques to your writing, they will soon become habits, which will cut your editing time and costs if you are going to publish your book.

These techniques work with fictional and non-fictional writing. The techniques can also help college and high school students write stronger papers.

Each lecture includes a short video explanation, a technique to apply to your writing, and additional exercises to reinforce the technique. There are also various handouts for quick reference to be used with future writing projects. These techniques will make the reader experience more enjoyable, and when readers enjoy your writing, you will sell more books.

As you go through the course, you will be using your own manuscript or written piece. Writing prompts are provided for those who have no prior writing samples.

The time required to go through the course will vary with each student since you are using your own written pieces that differ in length. Starting out, you will only be applying the techniques to a couple chapters. Once you have mastered the techniques, you will go back and apply what you have learned to your whole book or written piece.

By doing some initial editing yourself, you can save hundreds of dollars when hiring an editor. Then you can use the extra money on marketing. Let's get started!

Course Content

  • 12 section(s)
  • 25 lecture(s)
  • Section 1 Introduction
  • Section 2 Started, Began, -ing Words With Phrases and Infinitives
  • Section 3 ”Expletive” and “had ____ that” Phrases
  • Section 4 Voice
  • Section 5 "Had” in Internal Dialogue
  • Section 6 Dealing with Dialogue
  • Section 7 Nouns Into Verbs and Shortening Verb Phrases
  • Section 8 Double Nouns, Adjectives, Adverbs, and Verbs
  • Section 9 -ly Adverbs and Redundancy
  • Section 10 Character Filters, Cliches, and Hooks
  • Section 11 Your Next Step
  • Section 12 Additional Resources

What You’ll Learn

  • Self-edit your writing in a style that is easy to understand, allows the reader to become part of the experience, and creates a more enjoyable read., Mastery will make writing easier in the future., Applying these professional editing techniques will save you money when you hire an editor for publishing., Increase positive ratings/reviews on your books.

Skills covered in this course


Reviews

  • C
    Cristal Sieberhagen
    5.0

    Yes. As a person who learns through doing, this was right up my alley.

  • A
    Anastacia Nkechinyere
    4.5

    relatable

  • M
    Marsha Malcolm
    5.0

    I'm a professional editor who also writes. I have not received formal training in writing fiction, and I found this course quite useful in helping me to consider aspects of writing and editing fiction that I had not considered before. It was worth the investment.

  • J
    Judith M. Blevins
    5.0

    This course was simple to take and understand. The teacher is easy to listen to. It has given me the basics of editing that have encouraged me to submit my writing to a professional editor. It will save me a lot of my as it cuts out some of the professional editor's work.

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