Episode 3 of Many Hands Make Write Work - First Draft and Book Description
Welcome back! If you haven't had a chance to read the previous episodes, you can do so here and dive right in from the beginning. We are just about halfway through working out the book and today I am going to talk about finalizing the first draft . The first draft is a sloppy, marked-up-with-red-pen sheaf of papers at this point, but we are well on the way to cleaning it up and making it suitable for reading. This is when I would reach out to a professional editor to have them go through my manuscript with a fine-tooth comb. In all honesty, I did not always use an editor when I first started out because I didn't know any better, but now I do and it DOES make a difference. Authors are too close to their own work to view it objectively, so an editor is definitely necessary. Anyway, once the editor looks it over, I get it back and make the necessary changes. Then they may or may not go over it once last time to be sure that it's perfect and then it's time to look at