Self-Editing Tips: A List of Resources

I could write a post here about self-editing, but to be honest, I think I’d be just rehashing tips I’ve read at other websites. So, instead, it’s time for some link love! Here are a ton of resources if you’re like me and find it hard to self-edit:

General Non-Fiction and Content Editing Articles:

Pull out your red pencil and check out these links. Image: sxc.hu

• How to Stop Making Yourself Crazy with Self-Editing at Copyblogger
• Self-Editing: Tyranny and Transition at ack/nak
• Self-Editing Checklist 1-10 at Rebecca Ryan
• Self-Editing Your Writing at Editorku
• Three Basics to Editing at Wordclay Blog

For Fiction Writers:

• Self-Editing One Step at a Time: Cleaning Up Those Dialogue Tags at The Blood-Red Pencil
• Self-Editing Fiction: Making the Story as Good as It Can Be at Suite 101
• All About Self-Editing at Samhain Weblog
• Self-Editing at Jenn Johansson
• Self-Editing Your Writing at NedaraTree
• Self-Editing for the Struggling Writer at Copy Writing Help
• How to Write Tight – Self-Editing Tops to Make your Manuscript Ready for Publication at Publetariat
• The Science of Editing at Hexebart’s Well

Books and Software:

• Review: Revision & Self-Editing at YAnnabe
• 10 Essential Self-Editing Books at Dan Curtis – Professional Personal Historian
• Self-Editing in Business Writing at English Software
• The Power of Self-Editing at Writer’s Limbo

As always, feel free to leave a link here if you’ve read or written an article about self-editing. At Bizzia, a little self-promotion is just fine, as long as you’re on topic!