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How To Make Your Fiction Story The Best It Can Be: Part Two

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How to Check and Edit Your Fiction Story Part Two

In our second video on how to edit your story, we offer more guidance on how to improve your first draft into something substantial and reader-friendly.

In this video, we continue to share a step-by-step process for proofreading the first draft of your story. Steve offers guidance on active and passive voice, the importance of using strong and active verbs and how to tighten your sentences. He provides examples of his own writing to model the proofreading and editing process. Applying this process will save you valuable time by avoiding the pitfalls that often befall writers when they start to proofread and edit their first draft.

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