Editing Tip: Read for a solution

When reading how another author might handle a challenging passage, we’re really learning from that person’s experience. That’s always a good starting point to determine how you might solve your problem.

To that end, identify a passage you’re having trouble with in your writing. Now pick up a short story or chapter from a book similar to yours, reading specifically for techniques that writer used to deal with the same kind of passage now posing problems for you.

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My name is Rob Bignell. I’m an affordable, professional editor who runs Inventing Reality Editing Service, which meets the manuscript needs of writers both new and published. I also offer a variety of self-publishing services. During the past decade, I’ve helped more than 300 novelists and nonfiction authors obtain their publishing dreams at reasonable prices. I’m also the author of the 7 Minutes a Day… writing guidebooks, four nonfiction hiking guidebook series, and the literary novel Windmill. Several of my short stories in the literary and science fiction genres also have been published.