How to Edit your novel like a professional.

Name: How to Edit your novel like a professional.
Rating: 1.5 (2 reviews)

Learn how to create a bestselling book using professional editing techniques.

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10 students

Created by Randolph Winters

Last updated 4/2022

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What you'll learn

Learn how to edit your fictional writing like a professional editor.

Requirements

This course is best for beginning and intermediate writers of fiction.

Description

The course begins with a brief description of the editing process publishing companies go through to improve a book. Their goal is to make the book easier and more compelling to read. This will give it a better chance of creating the word of mouth that is necessary to turn it into a bestseller.

The course contains 28 video lectures and includes several pdf worksheets to assist with the understanding and application of the process being discussed.

Lecture titles are:

Introduction to the concept of self-editing

How to Become the Editor

Creating a Comments sheet

Using an Event Sheet to monitor the story and character arcs

The Importance of The Opening Page

Sample Opening page checklist and Analyze

The 3 Act Play Model of writing

Edit Act 1 Examine The Opening Pages

Edit Act 1 Creating Your Characters

Edit Act 1 The Inciting Incident

Edit Act 1 Recap Edit Ideas

Edit Act 2. The Confrontation

Edit Act 3. Resolution and Ending Template

Edit Act 3. Review of important elements

Character Development

Subplots - What are your characters doing

Motivation, Goals, and Conflict

Using the senses

Dialogue

Beginning and Ending Hooks

Check for Inconsistencies

Active and Passive Verbs

Tighten Sentences

Show VS Tell

Commas, Apostrophes, and Quotes

Words Duplicate, Weak, Overused, and Sentence Starting

Formatting for a publisher

Scrivener and Grammarly

ProWritingAid

** SPECIAL BONUS**

Marketing Plan To Sell Your Book

Marketing Plan Overview

Marketing Plan Setup and Execution

Marketing on Amazon

Who this course is for:

This course is for fiction writers who want to learn how to self-edit their stories to make them clearer and easier to read. The end result is to find your reading audience and achieve the word of mouth that helps create a bestseller.

Randolph Winters

Writer of Fictional Novels

1.5 Instructor Rating
2 Reviews
10 Students
1 Course

Randolph Winters is the author of several books.

Randolph Winters has been writing and self-publishing for over 20 years. Part of that journey was learning to self-edit his own stories to make them easier to read and understand. Putting all of that collective experience and knowledge together, he has written Edit Your Book Like a Professional. This book covers much of the editing process used by professional editors to make your book easier and more compelling to read. This will give it a better chance of creating the word of mouth that is necessary to create a best seller.
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Randolph Winters is also the author of The Pleiadian Mission, an investigative report on the UFO contacts of Eduard Billy Meier in Switzerland. This bestselling book reached top 10 in the New Age Book category in sales and sent him on a seven year promotional journey of talk radio shows, including the Art Bell Show, local and national TV shows, NBC UFO special, a Fox UFO Special and Strange Universe.
He is the creator of the first UFO Expo in Los Angeles and has been a headline speaker at hundreds of UFO Conventions, Expos, Book clubs, and bookstores.