Effective Editing By: Molly McCowan [Audiobook]

Author: Molly McCowan, The Great Courses
Narrated by: Professor Molly McCowan

Editing your own work is difficult, but it’s a crucial skill to master if you want to be a successful writer. After all, writing goes far beyond simply creating a rough draft – it’s how the work evolves from a rough draft to a finished piece that separates the good from the great. And as anyone who’s tried their hand at revising a novel or memoir can tell you, it’s all too easy to become mired in the details rather than see the bigger picture, merely focusing on the trees and forgetting the forest, until it grows unwieldy and overwhelming.

The tendency during the revision process to focus on the “little picture” versus the “big picture” can be overcome with the right tools and perspective. This is where Effective Editing: How to Take Your Writing to the Next Level comes in. Book coach and editor Molly McCowan takes you through the self-editing process in 13 detailed lessons, using a step-by-step method designed to reduce overwhelm and to structure the revision process in the most productive way possible. Working from the big to the little picture of your work, Molly shows you how to strengthen character development, find and fix plot holes, build stronger scenes, focus on smooth pacing and point-of-view issues, elevate your language, and much more.

The focus of this course is for you to improve your narrative writing skills, including fiction and nonfiction, such as memoir, autobiography, biography, and personal essays. Molly’s tips and tools throughout the course can help any writer edit their own work with skill and confidence.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.  

1.1M	Effective Editing_ How to Take Your Writing to the [B09CHDTFGH] - 01 - Opening Credits.m4b
480K	Effective Editing_ How to Take Your Writing to the [B09CHDTFGH] - 02 - Introduction.m4b
23M	Effective Editing_ How to Take Your Writing to the [B09CHDTFGH] - 03 - Lesson 1_ Understanding the Four Levels of Editing.m4b
22M	Effective Editing_ How to Take Your Writing to the [B09CHDTFGH] - 04 - Lesson 2_ Planning Your Edit.m4b
23M	Effective Editing_ How to Take Your Writing to the [B09CHDTFGH] - 05 - Lesson 3_ Editing for Plot and Structure.m4b
26M	Effective Editing_ How to Take Your Writing to the [B09CHDTFGH] - 06 - Lesson 4_ Editing for Dynamic Characters.m4b
24M	Effective Editing_ How to Take Your Writing to the [B09CHDTFGH] - 07 - Lesson 5_ Tackling Point of View.m4b
25M	Effective Editing_ How to Take Your Writing to the [B09CHDTFGH] - 08 - Lesson 6_ Page-Turner Pacing_ Scene Versus Narrati.m4b
24M	Effective Editing_ How to Take Your Writing to the [B09CHDTFGH] - 09 - Lesson 7_ Building Stronger Scenes.m4b
13M	Effective Editing_ How to Take Your Writing to the [B09CHDTFGH] - 10 - Lesson 8_ Showing Versus Telling_ Beyond the Basic.m4b
25M	Effective Editing_ How to Take Your Writing to the [B09CHDTFGH] - 11 - Lesson 9_ Dialogue That Sparkles.m4b
26M	Effective Editing_ How to Take Your Writing to the [B09CHDTFGH] - 12 - Lesson 10_ Sentences that Sizzle.m4b
27M	Effective Editing_ How to Take Your Writing to the [B09CHDTFGH] - 13 - Lesson 11_ Pruning Your Prose.m4b
11M	Effective Editing_ How to Take Your Writing to the [B09CHDTFGH] - 14 - Lesson 12_ When to Ignore the Grammar Rules.m4b
23M	Effective Editing_ How to Take Your Writing to the [B09CHDTFGH] - 15 - Lesson 13_ Beyond the Red Pen_ What Comes Next.m4b
580K	Effective Editing_ How to Take Your Writing to the [B09CHDTFGH] - 16 - End Credits.m4b
1.9M	Effective Editing_ How to Take Your Writing to the [B09CHDTFGH].pdf
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