Hi
So I've completed the first draft of my first novel I've been working on. It has been immensely enjoyable because I have not edited my writing as I've gone along instead just throwing ideas down as the story seemed to unfold quite naturally.
Now I move on to editing what I have just written and I'm not talking grammar errors here but rephrasing, cutting chunks out and improving the sentence structure etc. I didn't realise how intense it would be. I've also got to contend with getting dates accurate (there are a lot of them) and to be honest it very labour intensive. Maybe it's my impatience to get ithe book finished because I rattled off the first draft pretty quickly and I can already see this is going to require another read through and edit. I foolishly printed it off without leaving a space between each line hence there is scrawl everywhere on the page
Did anyone else find this part of the process quite hard going and requiring a lot of patience? It is however immensely satisfying I should add to see the book take shape.
Also can I ask anyone - have you used a professional editing service to sort out grammar and perhaps tidy up structure a bit? If so what is the likely cost of this service please?
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Editing first draft of novel
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monkeytree · 06/02/2017 20:18
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