#EditingTip

Don't try to do everything all at once.

When self-editing its best to do separate passes for:

1. Plot & Structure
2. Characters/arcs
4. Flow
5. Grammar

What rounds do you perform or combine? Or do you edit while you write?

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#AdjectiveOrder: definitely a #GrammarRule I didn’t know I knew.

#ReadersDigest tells us:

Native English speakers naturally list adjectives in this order:

1. Opinion
2. Size
3. Age
4. Shape
5. Color
6. Origin
7. Material
8. Purpose

https://www.rd.com/article/adjective-order-rules/

So we can talk about a gorgeous small old concave blue Italian ceramic cooking pot, but not a concave old Italian blue gorgeous cooking ceramic small pot.

Who knew? Did you?

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#EditingTip
In Word, Ctrl+Shift+8 (i.e. Ctrl+*) toggles the show/hide paragraph and formatting marks.
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