What Book Editors Hate - WritersLife.org

What Book Editors Hate - WritersLife.org

 

 

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hi I'm Jody from WritersLife.org
and today we'll be talking about what book

editors hate a piece of advice every

writer should follow is to hire a

professional editor to go through their

work once they have completed their book

however to actually prepare your

manuscript for that stage it's a good

idea to be aware of the common pitfalls

that writers fall into and if you know

what editors hate you can make their

lives easier and save you time and money

too not only is it good to look out for

and fix the mistakes that editors hate

before you send your book to them but

also for when you send your book to

publishers and agents if you want them

to seriously consider your work checking

that you have already eliminated any of

these editors bugbears from your book

before you send it off will give you a

much better chance of success so what is

it that editors hates let's take a look

no basic grasp of grammar or spelling if

every second word is a spelling mistake

and every sentence is punctuated

incorrectly it's going to take a huge

effort and many hours to get through

your book this will mean editors have

less time to concentrate on structure

character development and plot elements

which is important to receive feedback

on do yourself a favor and run your

manuscript through a spelling and

grammar check before you pass it on to

an editor huge passages focusing on

backstory having backstory is a useful

device for establishing your characters

and allowing the readers insight into

their past lives however if you focus

too much on backstory both the editor

and the reader will get bored include

details that are relevant and necessary

cut the rest out an entire chapter where

the character is walking somewhere

driving somewhere or sitting in bed

reminiscing an excellent book will be

fast paced and full of action if the

character spends too much time getting

somewhere or reminiscing about something

this slows down the pace of your book a

pet peeve of editors melodrama making

your story overly dramatic and make it

seem farcical and unbelievable readers

need to buy into your story to believe

it

editor's know that and so should you

making the same point over and over

again if you draw out a point

laboriously or repeat it in different

ways over and over again it simply looks

like you're trying to hit a word count

rather than write a story that appeals

to your readers you say something well

you only need to say it once going into

too much detail creativity is all about

having poetic license and beautiful

descriptions can be really effective in

a book and enhance your story

significantly however when you spend an

entire paragraph describing a vase in

your character's living room it better

seriously be significant otherwise you

need to cut it down over writing is a

big no-no for editor silly

inconsistencies when you are editing and

redrafting your novel look out for

inconsistencies these can be anything

from where character is standing to the

time of year inconsistencies are easy to

make but will frustrate your editor as

these should be picked up by you

repetitive vocabulary if you

continuously use the same descriptive

word this will quickly get tiresome for

your readers try to be unique and

exciting with all of your descriptions

if you know you've overused a word try

doing a Find and Replace search of your

manuscript so you can easily pick these

up and change them long passages of

dialogue dialogue creates immediacy can

drive the action forward and reveals

more about your characters however don't

turn every piece of dialogue into a

massive speech or monologue use it as a

device to break up the narrative instead

telling rather than showing editors hate

it when you tell the reader something

rather than showing them comb through

your novel and pick up instances of when

you're doing this this will save your

editor having to point them all out for

you if you can go through your

manuscript before you send it to an

editor agent or publisher and look out

for these 10 things you make their and

your lives so much easier so make sure

you take the time to edit your book

first thoroughly and you'll find you get

so much more out of your editor and are

more likely to have a positive response

from a publisher too don't forget if

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