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Editing Your Parallel Universe:
Tips for SFF Authors
Let me greet you as you enter this realm of words and wonder. <Waving an intergalactic tentacle>. This blog is a safe haven for Dukes, Knights, Serfs, and galactic creatures, any race of the undiscovered star-scape. Read on to examine the brewing mixture of information, explanation, exploration, and examples of editing, offered as a quick guide of quirkiness.
Look at the peculiar specimens popping up as editing entities:
- Mr. Conceptual Editing: This guy gives your novel a cosmic makeover, reshaping galaxies of plot and character to create a universe readers can’t escape.
- Ms. Line Editing: She is a literary surgeon, it’s all about trimming the unnecessary fat from your sentences, leaving only the lean, mean, storytelling machine.
- Robo Copy Editing: They are the grammar gnome who meticulously hunt down stray typos and rogue commas, ensuring your prose is a fortress of correctness.
- Sir Knight of Proofreading: Alas his final treasure is to hunt in your manuscript, where he searches for the elusive typo monsters that lurk in the shadows of your paragraphs.
- Lady Beta Reading: She takes your novel on a cross-country road trip with a bunch of strangers and mails you postcards filled with comments and suggestions.
- Wizard of Professional Editing: The Blue Wizard gives you VIP treatment with his literary guru-ness wielding his red pen like his wand, turning your words into pure magic.
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Self-editing with ProWriting Aid can reduce a substantial amount of purple space poo in your work. Take these steps to take to leap around the galaxy of your novel and clean up:
- Time-Traveler’s Spellcheck: Take advantage of ProWritingAid’s robust grammar and spelling checker to ensure your novel’s historical accuracy and chronology are spot on.
- Alien Linguistics Check: Utilize ProWritingAid’s style and consistency checks to meticulously review invented languages, ensuring they remain coherent and error-free.
- Character Costume Party: Dive into ProWritingAid’s suggestions to refine character descriptions, making sure they align perfectly with your characters’ personalities and the story’s world.
- Creature Feature: ProWritingAid’s in-depth reports can help you analyze and refine the descriptions of your fantastical creatures, ensuring they come to life on the page.
- Parallel Universe Plot Test: Employ ProWritingAid’s readability and consistency checks to verify that your plot threads are interwoven seamlessly, with no inconsistencies or unresolved elements.
- Emotion Elevation: Harness ProWritingAid’s reports to delve deep into your characters’ emotions, ensuring they resonate powerfully with readers.
- Metaphor Makeover: ProWritingAid’s style analysis can assist you in identifying and replacing clichés and tired metaphors with fresh and inventive language.
- Steampunk Syntax Surgery: Use ProWritingAid’s sentence structure suggestions to fine-tune your prose, ensuring it flows smoothly and engages readers effortlessly.
- Futuristic Formatting Finesse: Experiment with formatting using ProWritingAid’s formatting checks to give your novel a modern, eye-catching appearance that aligns with its theme.
- Intergalactic Grammar Police: Assemble your squad of grammar officers, i.e., ProWritingAid’s grammar and style checks, to comb through your manuscript and eliminate grammar and punctuation errors with precision.
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