My new video lecture series, Editing Your Own Work is live on Skillshare! Please check it out at:
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99% of writing is rewriting. So, if you’re a writer, unless you’re somehow magically able to set down one brilliant pristine passage after another, you will spend a lot of time rewriting. Some rewriting uses the same creative process that got you there in the first place; adding and/or substantially changing ideas, characters, locations and plot points.

Writing for a Living: Editing Your Own Work, isn’t about that, it’s about the other, let’s say 48.5%; editing, taking a hard, unflinching look at what you’ve already got. And that’s not just about correcting typos or other mistakes, aka proofreading. Editing involves cutting, restructuring, streamlining, and otherwise honing that beautiful muse-inspired mess, so it becomes the best possible version of itself, ready for readers to enjoy, or for a professional editor to rip into all over again while you stand by, whimpering. This course will show you how to do that in eight handy-dandy lectures.

Stefan Petrucha

Author, Teacher, Beggar Man, Thief

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