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Sometimes the hardest part of writing isn’t writing. It’s convincing yourself that the thing you’re building is worth finishing.
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Good editors are needed, but it all starts with writers finishing the book, so I'm rooting for both.
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Yes, nobody should hire an editor to do the basics like fix typos.
You wanna make good use of an editors skills and time by delivering them what you think is a finished product,
Grammarly and AI editing will only get you so far and you’re absolutely right that when you’re in the middle of a project you’re so deep in the weeds that you can no longer safely judge your own book.
You also really can’t trust friends and family to be honest about your book.
And even the most amazing review can be biased because your book appealed to the reviewer.
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I had to actually go to Africa to understand the difference between their world and ours.
What I still don’t understand is why their children seem to be happier than our own.
I've been editing books for a while now, and the thing most writers get wrong is thinking editing is just fixing typos.
It's not. Typos are the easy part.
The real work is reading a draft and noticing the stuff the writer can't see anymore. You've lived with your story for months, maybe years. You know what everything means, so your brain fills in the gaps without you noticing. A reader can't do that.
So I'll catch things like:
• A character who disappears for 40 pages and no one notices
• A scene you love that's slowing the whole book down
• Dialogue where everyone sounds the same
• A detail that contradicts something 10 chapters back
Historical and research-heavy books have their own version of this. The writer knows the timeline cold, but the reader needs it spelled out. If a date or a fact is off, they feel it right away, even if they can't say why.
None of that is about bad writing. Most drafts I see have real talent in them. They just need someone to point at the spot and say "this is where they lose interest."
And a first draft is supposed to be messy. That's what drafts are for. If yours feels rough, that's normal. It means you finished something, and most people never get that far.
If you're stuck in the middle of a draft right now, what's the part you're struggling with?
Book lovers, drop in. Readers, writers, authors, filmmakers, anyone who loves a good story.
Who are you and what are you reading or working on right now?
I'm Anthony, an editor.
Every edit I make is done by hand, by a real person who actually reads your story.
No shortcuts. Your book deserves a human reader.
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The funnest chapter for me to write was chapter 14, where the artist takes to the sky as an observer.
This is the type of airplane that I am writing about.
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My book Iron Doves
Begins with what was known as the German campaign of terror.
A lot of times the only people that were allowed to live or stay in the area where those who served a useful purpose to the military. The artist is assigned a billet at a farm belonging to a Cooper, also known as a barrel maker or a crate maker. These men were favored by the German military for the woodworking skills.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German…
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Trying to scam someone with over 200K followers is incredibly bold.
Just saying.
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Small-town suspense? Check. Amateur sleuth? Check. Slow-burn chemistry, buried secrets, and a killer hiding in plain sight? Oh, absolutely.
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Tell me your genre and word count. I’ll reply to a few with what I’d look at first when editing a draft like yours.