{"id":70,"date":"2012-08-20T22:01:07","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T05:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evelyngrantwrites.com\/?p=70"},"modified":"2012-08-20T22:01:07","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T05:01:07","slug":"what-ive-learned-about-editing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/evelyngrantwrites.com\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"What I’ve Learned About Editing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I’ve always known how important\u00a0 editing is. We first learn about it in school when we write book reports, essays, etc.\u00a0I\u00a0 review what I’ve written whenever I’ve finished a paragraph. When I finish a chapter, I review it. Then when the first draft is complete, I read the entire thing from the beginning, correcting errors as I go. When I’m done, I start again at the beginning and repeat the process. My plan is to keep repeating the process until I get through the whole manuscript without finding any errors. That never seems to\u00a0happen. There is\u00a0always\u00a0a typo or something that I feel can be better said. Other authors tell me they experience this as well. I\u00a0have a few friends read over my manuscripts and\u00a0they always find a few errors I’ve missed. On my third book, Gray Cloud, I hired an editor. More errors were found and corrected. The book was at last published on Kindle. Then I submitted it for publication in print form. When I received my first proof copy I read it once more. Guess what? I found more errors! I corrected them and resubmitted. The second proof copy has arrived and I am currently going through it, and yes, I’ve found a few more errors. I’ve come to the conclusion that editing is never complete. It does give me a small amount of comfort when I read books by popular authors and discover that they too have errors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve always known how important\u00a0 editing is. We first learn about it in school when we write book reports, essays, etc.\u00a0I\u00a0 review what I’ve written whenever I’ve finished a paragraph. When I finish a chapter, I review it. Then when … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[19,21,8,9,20,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/evelyngrantwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/evelyngrantwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/evelyngrantwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/evelyngrantwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/evelyngrantwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/evelyngrantwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94,"href":"http:\/\/evelyngrantwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/evelyngrantwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/evelyngrantwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/evelyngrantwrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}