Review: hints on self-editing
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 22, 2014
McAlister has put together a toolbox of hints for editing one's work. Her colour-coding worked wonderfully even though I got the colours mixed up. It showed there was only one preponderance of dialogue and the rest fairly evenly spaced as recommended by MacDonald in her 'Be your own editor'. Reading it out loud is recommended by others as well as McAlister. Short and long sentences with the speech tag in the middle. Watch out for 'ly' adverbs and feed in backstory later than opening paragraph. Worth the read.