Replay: Elizabeth George shares Five Things She's Learned about Editing Her Own Work
Check out the first five minutes of her recent class.
“Learning how to edit yourself will give you an advantage as you make your way along the road to publication. Potential literary agents will be looking at a much more polished piece of work than they are used to seeing. Potential editors will see a manuscript that is quite possibly the start of a career as a professional write.”
– Elizabeth George, Five Things I've Learned about Editing My Own Work
Elizabeth George is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty psychological suspense novels featuring Inspector Thomas Lynley. She is also the author of Mastering the Process: From Idea to Novel, which offers readers a master class in the art and science of crafting a novel. Here’s the first five minutes of her two-hour class in which she shares the Five Things She’s Learned about how self-editing can help you to recognize what works in your own writing – and to fix what doesn’t.
Five Things I’ve Learned about Editing My Own Work takes you through the steps of self-editing your work. It’s filled with clear, precise, experience-tested approaches to what actually works in your own writing , what doesn’t, and how to fix it.
If you’re interested in ways to better edit your own writing – and if you’d like to better establish your own editing as an essential step in your writing process – this class is for you.
Elizabeth has also written four young adult novels, one book of nonfiction, and two short-story collections. Her work has been honored with the Anthony and Agatha awards, two Edgar nominations, and both France’s and Germany’s first prize for crime fiction. She has taught creative writing internationally and is the recipient of an honorary doctorate in humane letters and an honorary MFA in creative writing.
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