This is an exhaustive guide of how you can edit your own manuscript. Basically you need to tear it in pieces (sections) and analyze it from a very different POV than the one you use while in writer's mode.

The book includes excercises to work on at the end (and curse) of every chapter focusing in a most especific area. You need time to read it and aply what you read and so you can not see it as a reference guide.

I find it is difficult to read this book in only one week. You need time to go through it and to analyze what you need to learn before editing your novel. If you want a fast reference to edition, this is the wrong book.

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