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Writing Craft & Technique
The Refinery for tips on writing, editing, and genre principles to help your work shine.


11 Self-Editing Tips
You’ve finished your first draft – now what?
Time to hire an editor? Panic over your query letter? Or maybe you just want to hit ‘publish’?
If you said yes to any of these... hold your horses. You don’t want to hire an editor to make your rough draft look presentable. You want your story to go from great to its full potential.
Let me share 11 self-editing tips to improve your manuscript.
Feb 86 min read
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