: Re: How to survive editing I am currently trying to edit a one my most recent novel. Trying is the keyword. I asked a few people to read my book as beta readers, but all of them have been

If you want to be a writer, you had better get used to reading and re-reading your own material. I just completed what I hope is the final edit on my latest book. I haven't been keeping score, but I have read the entire book through ... at least 5 times. And every time through I find problems I missed on previous reads.

How to get the motivation? I don't know what to say to that except, Your motivation should be that you want this book to be a quality product, and you know it won't be unless you go over it and over it and over it. I write non-fiction, so the issues are a little different, but I cringe when in reviewing what I've written I find a factual error. What if it had gone out that way?! I'd look like an idiot! I recently found one place in my current book where I got two sources mixed up, I quoted one but attributed it to the other. Which would be bad enough, except that in the text I made a point about the difference, and so I got it backwards! Yahh, I would have looked stupid. I only found it because I was quoting the same source elsewhere and I had to go look back at the original. Compare the effort required to proof read your book with the embarrassment you will suffer if an error slips through the cracks. :-)

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