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Manuscript Essentials with Kate Goldsworthy
Welcome!
Meet Your Tutor (1:29)
The Editing Process
Introduction to Editing
The Importance of Editing
Structural Editing
Point of View, Tense and Use of Names
Exercise: POVs, Tenses, Names
Copyediting
On Copyediting
Exercise: Cleaning Up
Sample Copyedit
Proofreading
Permissions and Legal Advice
Writing the 'Other'
Research
Exercise: Sensitivity Readers
Microsoft Word
Exercise: Exploring Track Changes
Word: Spelling & Grammar and AutoCorrect
Word: ‘Edit—Find’ and Consistency
Word: Inserting Text From Files
Word: Formatting Documents—Spacing, Font, Indents, Borders, Styles
Exercise: Getting To Know Word
Style Guides
Avoiding Common Pitfalls
Introduction
Word Confusions
Exercise: Avoid Confusion
Dialogue
Exercise: Researching Dialogue
Overuse of Adverbs
Confusion Between En Dashes, Em Dashes, Hyphens, Semicolons and Colons
Repetition
Scenes vs Summary
Exercise: Turn Summary Into a Scene and Vice Versa
'Show, Don't Tell'
Scene-setting
Voice
Exercise: Experimenting with Voice
The Importance of Timelines
Exercise: Timelines
The Main Elements of Any Manuscript
Introduction
Titles
Subtitles
Exercise: Finding a Title
Genres and Subgenres
Exercise: Researching Your Genre
Breaking Up Your Work: Parts
Chapters
Exercise: Beginnings and Endings
Sections
Exercise: Taking Breaks
Headings
What’s the Difference? Using Prologues, Prefaces, Forewords, Introductions, Author’s Notes, Epilogues, Conclusions and Afterwords
Prelims and End Matter
Pic Sections
Word Count and Book Formats
Exercise: Hard Copies
Content Warnings
Goodbye From Your Tutor (0:09)
Feedback
Thank you
Overuse of Adverbs
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