Congratulations!
You’ve completed your manuscript. That’s the hard part out of the way. Now it’s up to your Editor to clean it up, fix all your mistakes, and turn it into a bestseller. That’s their job, right?
Wrong!
You should never send a manuscript to your editor without first running through several (at least!) rounds of editing yourself. Your editor’s real job is to make suggestions that will strengthen the core ideas of your piece, not to spend hours fixing amateur mistakes that you should have caught yourself.
If you send an unpolished manuscript to your editor, you’ll be wasting time and money on easy fixes that could have been prevented by thoroughly editing your work yourself. You also risk having your editor chuck your manuscript in the garbage because she can’t see past the awkward, unclear writing to your amazing ideas!
To that end, here are ten key ways you should fix your manuscript before sending it off to your editor.
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