Write well. Write often. Edit wisely.
Don’t bother trying to polish a first or second draft. Because of the changes you’ll make to subsequent drafts, a polish before its time is a waste of time.
A quick guide to manuscript clean-up. By the time you need these tips, you should have worked through multiple drafts of your story. The manuscript should also have been edited—by you or others—and proofed—also by you or others.
You’re ready for submission, but is your manuscript? Take one final pass through your story using these tips to help with last-minute cleanup.
The reader will focus on what stands out. Turn the reader's attention where you want it to go.
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