Editing Tip: Remember your audience

When writing, always keep your readers’ needs in mind.

That doesn’t mean you should write solely to please the reader and in doing so be inauthentic. Instead, as you tell your story or make your suggestions, think about what your reader might want to know, and how your wording can help them relate to your book.

Readers will appreciate not being talked down to and will recognize that you are not self-consumed.

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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.