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Effective Editing: How to Take Your Writing to the Next Level

Offered By: The Great Courses Plus

Tags

Narrative Writing Courses Character Development Courses Plot Development Courses

Course Description

Overview

<p>Discover the crucial phase between drafting and publishing with writing coach and editor, Molly McCowan. With Molly’s guidance, we created <strong>Effective Editing: How to Take your Writing to the Next Level</strong>, which provides you with a step-by-step, self-editing process filled with tools and techniques that will help improve your narrative writing skills.</p>

Syllabus

  • By This Professor
  • 01: Understanding the Four Levels of Editing
  • 02: Planning Your Edit
  • 03: Editing for Plot and Structure
  • 04: Editing for Dynamic Characters
  • 05: Tackling Point of View
  • 06: Page-Turner Pacing: Scene versus Narration
  • 07: Building Stronger Scenes
  • 08: Showing versus Telling: Beyond the Basics
  • 09: Dialogue That Sparkles
  • 10: Sentences That Sizzle
  • 11: Pruning Your Prose
  • 12: When to Ignore the Grammar Rules
  • 13: Beyond the Red Pen: What Comes Next

Taught by

Molly McCowan

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