Every day before you write, go back and re-read what you have already written. Fix obvious mistakes in grammar, syntax, perspective, tense, spelling, and punctuation immediately. When you see something you think needs to be re-written or fact-checked, mark it. By the time you finish your first draft, it will already be in relatively tidy shape. Going back and editing what you have written recently will help you avoid inconsistencies in storyline and style. Don't re-write when you edit. Mark it so that you can return to it later. When you are trying to generate a first draft, it's important not to get bogged down second-guessing yourself. If you can't proofread and make marks without also rewriting, skip the proofreading and marking. Having written the whole first draft, break it into sections. These sections should not be your chapters, unless your chapters are especially long. Instead, divide your manuscript into quarters, fifty-page units, or 20,000 word units, whichever feels right to you. Take the next several days to edit one section at a time. Fact-check and rewrite the sections you have marked. Revise for coherence and speed. Does each section of the book do the work you want it to do? Once you have the quarters edited, read the whole manuscript from beginning to end. Print it for a fresh perspective, and make notes on the printed manuscript. Ask yourself, does the story happen at the right pace? Does each section set up the next section? This is your chance to delete paragraphs or chapters that aren't contributing to the whole. Anything that feels repetitive or unnecessary should be cut. Make the changes to your document. Keep the manuscript with your notes in case you want to revisit it later. This is not the time to polish every sentence. You're trying to build the foundation at this point. Once you have this second draft written, let it sit. Try to not even think about it for a period of weeks or months. The amount of time is up to you. When the time feels right, return to it. If you aren't sure, look at the manuscript. If you immediately start to rewrite it, you aren't ready. Some authors take six months, and others only take a few weeks. You should have some emotional distance by the time you return. This will allow you to spot and excise weaknesses in your prose, and to have a clearer vision of the work as a whole. If you have people in your life who are willing to read early drafts, you can send them your draft while you wait. Be sure to explain exactly what kind of feedback you want. Don't leave it for too long. While a few months is fine, a year or more might distance you too much from your original ideas. This edit should take place on your computer, and will probably involve serious changes. Read through the manuscript once, taking notes as you go. When you're done, organize these new notes alongside any other notes you have (notes you left yourself before the rest, notes you got from other readers, notes you jotted while you waited) so that they are in the chronological order of your manuscript. Revise your manuscript according to the notes. After this initial read-through, make the changes your notes point to. Go through again in sections, like you did for the first draft. This stage can take weeks or months, depending on the level of change your book needs. When your manuscript is in reasonable, readable shape, having been edited twice and having been freed of typos and inconsistencies, get a few readers together. You can ask for friends, colleagues, and professional editors to read your manuscript. Ask them for specific feedback, and explain exactly what you are going to do with their feedback. For a first or second draft, you might ask for advice on plot, characters, research, or sequence. For a later draft, you might ask more general questions, such as "is this believable? Original? Does it make sense? Were you surprised by the ending?" You can hire professional editors to give you feedback on your manuscript. Look online for "manuscript editors" or call up editing agencies and ask for someone who is experienced at editing your specific genre. Even if you do have friends who are willing to look at your manuscript, professional readers and editors can make a huge difference. When your book is pretty polished, and you've edited it so many times you can't really hear it anymore, print it off and read it aloud from beginning to end. Reading it aloud will teach you what parts are still not quite working. It is natural, after this much editing, to hate your manuscript. If you get bored by any section, however, you may want to revise it or edit it out. After you have read the whole book, do a nonlinear read-through. Go through and read the first sentence in every chapter. Read the first sentence and last sentence of each section, and of the book as a whole. If you find echoes, but not repetition, your book is exhibiting coherence. Look through your manuscript for sentences and paragraphs that are too long, too choppy, fragmented or run-on. Make sure your opening paragraph is elegantly written and contains action that will pull your reader in. If you wrote a book of poems, read each line separately and determine that it is worth attention on its own. If you wrote a novel or a play, edit the dialogue for flow, characterization, and style. Read the dialogue aloud to feel whether or not it sounds natural: do your characters all talk the same way? Do they use too much repetitive filler language? Is there vocabulary and syntax consistent with the time and station they live within? Proofread and revise one final time. This is a good time to format your manuscript, and add footnotes, endnotes, or epigraphs, depending on the kind of book you are editing. Format your book according to the guidelines of your agent or the press (or presses) you are submitting to. If you haven't yet titled your book, now is the time. Write a title that will catch your readers attention, and that is representative of the content and style of your book. To brainstorm a title, pull language from the book that is representative of its main themes. This could be dialogue, description, a symbolic object, or even proper names, such as the name of a protagonist, a place, or a time/event. The title you give to your draft is called your "working title." Your publishers or editors may want to see several working titles to determine the best one.
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One-sentence summary -- Edit as you write. Edit each quarter. Print it and read the whole thing. Let it cook. Write a second draft. Get outside feedback. Read it aloud. Edit on the level of the line. Make finishing touches.

Serve these vegetarian stuffed peppers immediately.
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One-sentence summary -- Gather your ingredients. Put the stuffing into the empty peppers. Place the stuffed peppers into the slow cooker. Sprinkle the peppers with 4 tbsp. of grated Parmesan cheese. Serve.

Draw three more circles within the big circle for the pupils, each one should be smaller than the first. Add a curved line for the mouth. Sketch a line across the feet and a curved line attached to it for her shoes.
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Draw an oval shape. Draw the body with a rectangle shape, bend it at will based on the body position you are planning to draw. Draw two long ovals for the hands and long curves for the feet. Draw the bangs with two curved lines connected at the center of the forehead. Draw large circular eyes. Add two teardrop shapes at each side of the head for the twin tail hairstyle. Add two horizontal line on the body for the pattern on her dress. Finalize your drawing and erase unnecessary lines. Colour your drawing.