Developmental editing is at the core of making a good writer great.
For many years I wrote dull, go-nowhere stories, until…. I began to reverse engineer my writing process.
That was right after I got some really good advice from a friend who was an excellent writer and editor.
From that point on, I could see my writing improve every few months.
The more I looked at my work from the 4 necessary points of view, the better my writing became.
The 4 Necessary Points of View when writing a story are:
- The Protagonist
- The Other Characters
- The Reader
- Yours
Additionally, if you want to avoid any type of writers block or slowing down the flow of your writing… consistently ask yourself a lot of questions about your story. About the characters etc.
The questions are to get you thinking about your writing like your reader.
That’s a tricky thing, when you are attempt to do your own developmental editing.
If you can do that, everything else gets easier after that.
The series of questions can be based on the Socratic Questioning Method. It’s a popular method among therapists to illicit more complete answers and information from the patients.
What this does for YOU and your WRITING is multi-fold.
- You’ll start to understand now to look at your own writing objectively.
- Have an understanding of the 4 different perspectives you need to determine where the holes are in your story line.
- Learn how to be descriptive and succinct with your words
- What you need to do to have your reader see and feel your words on the page like a movie in their minds.
- You’ll see how all of this will make you the kind of writer who makes a real impact on their readers.
- The answers to these questions will help teach you the principals of good story telling
- You’ll be able to find YOUR OWN way of working and not get stuck learning someone else’s system.
- You’ll be able to identify where your writing is going wrong and how to fix it… FAST!
OK… I’ll leave it there. Asking many types of questions consistently, like an editor you’ve hired to do developmental editing on your manuscript — will make you a more effective writer. Thereby engaging your reader more thoroughly!
Thanks for reading/listening. I wish you a very prosperous day. Renee
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