Editing a Book Using Paragraph Editing

When editing a novel, you often face a difficultbecome a lot easier because you will start to see
task. If you edit the minute details, focusing onhow all of the pieces fit together. Rather than just
line after line, you will often have trouble keepinglooking at the quality of every sentence in your
focused on the core of the story. Instead, younovel, you also look at how that sentence fits into
will have a collection of great lines that don't flowthe overarching story of your novel. This practice
as smoothly as they could. To remedy this issue,will help you improve the quality of individual
paragraph editing is a great technique.sentences, as well as the entire book.
The notion of paragraph editing is simple. WhenOverall, paragraph editing is just one facet of the
editing, you look at complete paragraphs. Afterediting process when you try writing a novel. In
each paragraph you read, you highlight what thethe end, it's best to make use of all forms of
point of that paragraph is in the greater contextediting to make the book the best that it can be.
of the chapter or even book. By extension, thisBe sure to combine meticulous line by line editing
method can work on the greater scale ofwith paragraph editing and of course, participating
chapters, with the writer identifying the point ofin writing workshops to get broader opinions on
each chapter.your story.
By using this technique, writing a fiction book can