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If you’re like every other writer I’ve met, you get random ideas for novels that you know would be great and well-received by readers, but it’s not always convenient to start working on a new novel, especially if you’re already working on a single title or the next book in your series. So, what’s the best way to handle all these ideas?
How to Get the Ideas Down so You Can Write Them Later
The biggest problem with being a very prolific author is the number of ideas that you may have for various novels. Thankfully, you can efficiently handle these ideas so that you can work on them after you finish your current manuscript.
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Have you heard of the term over-editing? If you’re a fiction or non-fiction author, you’ve probably run across this term more than once. It obviously means, you’d done too much editing on your current manuscript, but what is the definition of too much editing?
Over-Editing – A Definition
Over-editing occurs when the editing process fails to move the book forward or make the content of the book cleaner and/or more appealing to readers.
Read more: What Is Over-Editing, and What Can You Do About It?
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Wavemaker is a piece of novel writing and card making software with novel planning features. It is an add-on for Chrome and Chromium. Because it adds onto the browser as an external application, it works with all platforms. It's also available in the Google Play Store. All versions of this software are free as of this writing.
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Updated: May 5, 2019
On May 5, 2019, the creator of Biblisco contacted me, letting me know that Biblisco 2.1 was available for download for Mac, Linux and Windows, so I have updated this to reflect the new version, which is improved over version 2.0.3, which was what I had previously downloaded for Linux. First thing to know. If you've started a project under the old Biblisco, I recommend you finish it and switch to the new version for your next project. I was unable to create an archive in the old Biblisco and get it to load in the new Biblisco. The new Biblisco did not see the old project's archive. Thankfully, I was using the old Biblisco to test the functions. I'm doing the same with the new version (with the intent to use it as a way to organize projects that I've been working on in Google Docs. (Full disclosure there.)
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Once you’ve completed your book and performed the last content edit to check for plot holes, flow, punctuation and sentence structure, there’s still one more edit that you should perform prior to publishing your book on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Kobo. This absolute last edit before formatting and publishing your book ensures that your sentences are tight and word redundancy is minimal.
1. Find “LY” Words
This check is fairly easy. Open your Find/replace function and type “LY”. Then, click “Find All”. This search finds every word in your manuscript with an “ly”. You really really really really want to reduce this number. LY words are modifiers, and you shouldn’t need many of them, and they can prove to be a distraction to readers. Go through and try and cut this number in half. The only place I don’t tend to remove these is dialogue, but I do try to pull them out of all the text that isn’t dialogue.
Read more: 6 Tips for Performing Your Final Book Edit Before Formatting and Publication