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Because publishers these days expect high standards of self-editing from new writers, I shall be running a workshop on the subject at a literary festival next week. I've never tried such a workshop before although I've been running novel writing support groups for the last five years. While there are obvious overlaps, it wasn't until I was preparing suitable exercises that I became aware of the differences between the two subjects. I'd be really interested to hear comments about this and I wonder if others have thought of bringing would-be novel writers from their home towns together to try something similar.
Here's my introductory quote:
Self-editing isn't so much correcting grammar but making it more effective; it doesn’t require a deep knowledge of grammar – it’s more instinctual. You’re aware that something isn’t quite right, so you fix it. It doesn’t mean that what you’ve written is ungrammatical, it may just be a bit ‘clunky’.
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