The Erotica Handbook by Emily Baker

Author:Emily Baker [Baker, Emily]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-02-17T23:00:00+00:00

Editing your own work

Editors are expensive so in the beginning you must edit your own stuff. The cheapest method to improving your writing is to not look at it for a few days. This is called the Letting it Bake method. After a few days not looking at your story at all, take a look at it on a different device than what you wrote it on. If you write on the computer, look at on your phone, or print it out and look at it on paper (barbaric, I know.)

The baking method is effective because often times when we’re writing we lose track of the information that’s been relayed to the audience. We get lazy and use pronouns like he or they. “They thought that stupid.” When you write it the first time you know exactly who “they” are, but you might find that when you re-read your work you’ve forgotten who “they” are and your sentence doesn’t make sense.

Sometimes when when you re-read your work after a few days you will notice extra words that can be cut, like the second “when” at the beginning of this sentence.

Here are some more tips:

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