Revise and Edit Your Work

When the writing’s done, and your draft is finished, you can take a break for a while. But then it’s time to work on revising, rewriting, and editing your work. As you go from first draft to second, and then to your final draft, you may make a lot of changes, and you may want to record them in case your original turns of phrase were better.

This chapter looks at the revision and editing process, talking about marking revisions, taking snapshots, and managing this step in the production of your manuscript.

Find and Replace Text

When revising and editing your work, you may want to find certain texts—character names, locations, or phrases—to see how you have used them. You may also want to replace texts: for example, you ...

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