: Re: How can I edit my own, very old work? I have about a hundred pages of a novel I wrote in high school, I like the concept behind the writing but I'm finding it extremely difficult to go

Most authors writing a novella/novel length piece don't typically just do repetitive straight reads. When working on large pieces I like to color-code my text for easier editing. When I'm working from a simple formula I'll give the protagonist a color, the antagonist a color and the relationship character a color. You can color large portions of description/dialog/action. For me color-coding is my favorite editing tool. It makes editing large works much more reasonable and it makes it much easier to edit works you've set aside for a while.

There's no right number of revisions, but most well known authors I've listened to on the topic would say 5-10 revisions is standard for a novel. Breaking my editing passes into sub-categories makes me vastly more effective and helps keep my attention on what I wrote, and not on what I remember having written.

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: Re: How can I edit my own, very old work? I have about a hundred pages of a novel I wrote in high school, I like the concept behind the writing but I'm finding it extremely difficult to go

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