Revising & Editing

The Writer's Digest team has witnessed many writing mistakes over the years, so we started this series to help identify them for other writers (along with correction strategies). This week's writing mistake is revising while writing.

The Writer's Digest team has witnessed many writing mistakes over the years, so we started this series to help identify them for other writers (along with correction strategies). This week's writing mistake is refraining to revise writing.

Novelist A.E. Osworth discusses their experience working with a copyeditor for their novel We Are Watching Eliza Bright and how the experience made them feel Witnessed.

Debut novelist Zak Salih considers how his viewpoint on writing vs. revision led him to embrace the messiness of the writing process and why he wrote Let's Get Back to the Party.

Award-winning author Jill G. Hall shares her top tips for how to dive into your latest project head-first.

In this post, J.D. Lasica of Authors A.I. shares how artificial intelligence can help authors write a better novel and questions whether A.I. could be a boon to future writers and authors.

Help your freelance writing land better with editors and increase your chances of getting published with these 11 proven tips for self-editing.

In this post, Kris Spisak shares 5 novel editing questions to ask before any next steps in the publishing process, including "does your story have a strong narrative drive," "is your protagonist too passive," and more.

Mackenzie Belcastro addresses writers who are despairing over their early drafts, highlighting five ways you can persevere and discover your story within them.

Paragraph writing in fiction doesn’t follow traditional rules. In this series, we cover how to write a good paragraph by exploring different lengths and kinds of paragraphs—and when to use them. Here, learn how to write a single-sentence paragraph.

The rewrite is tougher than the draft. But the right rewrite strengthens your fiction into something that lasts to publication and gains a significant readership. Boost your novel-polishing skills with these seven strategies.

Learning how to catch wrong-word errors will help you prevent them and correct them while you're proof reading your work.

Here are 26 important items you should check when copy editing and proofreading your manuscript.

For every way our first drafts fail, they get us farther down the road to success. Here's what you can learn from your first draft.

As a longtime nonfiction book and magazine editor, Debbie Harmsen has given notes on revising numerous manuscripts and articles. Here's what all writers should know.

Here are a few things to consider after you’ve written your first love—uh—I mean draft.

I strongly recommend bloggers to turn off the autocorrect on your phone. And here are 10 reasons to assure you.

Writing is about getting down to it, about finding your way into the moment and sustaining the energy for as long as you can effectively. But the REAL writing is during revision.