| When editing a novel, you often face a difficult | | | | become a lot easier because you will start to see |
| task. If you edit the minute details, focusing on | | | | how all of the pieces fit together. Rather than just |
| line after line, you will often have trouble keeping | | | | looking at the quality of every sentence in your |
| focused on the core of the story. Instead, you | | | | novel, you also look at how that sentence fits into |
| will have a collection of great lines that don't flow | | | | the 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. When | | | | Overall, paragraph editing is just one facet of the |
| editing, you look at complete paragraphs. After | | | | editing process when you try writing a novel. In |
| each paragraph you read, you highlight what the | | | | the end, it's best to make use of all forms of |
| point of that paragraph is in the greater context | | | | editing to make the book the best that it can be. |
| of the chapter or even book. By extension, this | | | | Be sure to combine meticulous line by line editing |
| method can work on the greater scale of | | | | with paragraph editing and of course, participating |
| chapters, with the writer identifying the point of | | | | in writing workshops to get broader opinions on |
| each chapter. | | | | your story. |
| By using this technique, writing a fiction book can | | | | |