The Order to Follow in Editing Your First Draft

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To ensure that you don’t waste time or duplicate work, take the advice of a seasoned editor and use a hierarchical system for making changes.   First come big, structural changes. These need to be in place first. I’m referring to chapter order, or large chunks of writing within chapters. Then move on from there to the level of paragraph. This has more to do with the way information is flowing on the page. Only after you have dealt with the paragraphs can you come down to the level of…read more