How not to edit your book

Longtime editor Dave King is most certainly not going to tell you that your novel doesn’t need an edit.

What he will tell you, though, is that too much editing — or the wrong kind of editing — can also harm your book.

He explains how to tell whether you’re editing too soon, too late, past the point of diminishing returns, or simply too long in a post on the dangers of editing for Writer Unboxed.

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