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Before You Hit Send (Always On)
Welcome Info and Intro
Grammar, voice and writing "rules"
How to approach this course
General Participation Etiquette
Lesson 1: Course Intro
The Building Blocks Part 1
Lesson 2: Read Aloud/Hear Your Words
Addendum Lesson: Blocking
The Building Blocks Part 2
Lesson 3: Track Changes
Lesson 4: Find and Replace
Lesson 5: Customizing Your Word Processing Program
Editing 101 Part 1
Lesson 6: The Basics Part I
Editing 101 Part 2
Lesson 7: The Basics, Part II
Lesson 7 Addendum Video: Direct Address Comma (5:45)
Editing 101 Part 3
Lesson 8: Basics Part III
Editing for Punctuation Part 1
Lesson 9: Apostrophes (more than you ever wanted to know!)
Editing for Punctuation Part 2
Lesson 10: Other Punctuation
Editing 101 Part 4
Lesson 11: Random Basics
Grammar vs Style
Lesson 12: Grammar vs Style
Back it up!
Lesson 13: Your book looks good, won't you back that thang up?
Editing at the Word level Part 1
Lesson 14: Adverbs
Editing at the Word level Part 2
Lesson 15: Adjectives
Editing at a Sentence and Paragraph Level
Lesson 16: Figurative Speech: Similes, Cliches and Metaphors
Editing at a Sentence and Paragraph Level Part 2
Lesson 17: Comma Splices, Contractions and Conjunctions
Comma Splice Discussion Recording
Editing at a Sentence and Paragraph Level Part 3
Lesson 18: Sentence Structure: Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers
Editing at a Sentence and Paragraph Level Part 4
Lesson 19: Body Parts Gone Wild! (and how to write a better sex scene)
Editing at a Sentence and Paragraph Level Part 5
Lesson 20: Overwriting
Editing at a Sentence and Paragraph Level Part 6
Lesson 21: Passive Voice
Passive Voice: By Zombies Test
The Editor/Author Relationship
Lesson 22: Editorial Not Adversarial Relationship
Dialogue Part 1
Lesson 23: Tagging Dialogue
Lesson 24: Punctuating Dialogue
Dialogue Part 2
Lesson 25: Examining Character Dialogue
The Big Picture Edits Part 1
Lesson 26: Pacing
Addendum Lesson: Prologues, Yes or No?
The Big Picture Edits Part 2
Lesson 27: POVs
The Big Picture Edits Part 3
Lesson 28: Show vs Tell
Lesson 28 Addendum Video: Pop Culture References
Wrap-Up Part 1
Lesson 29: Timelines, Outlines, Character Bibles & Plotting
Wrap-Up Part 2
Lesson 30: A Final Assignment to Use All Your New Skills
Wrap-up Part 3
Lesson 31: "Rules" of Editing and Critiquing
Wrap-up Part 4
Lesson 32: When to Stop Editing
Wrap-up Part 5
Lesson 34: Finalizing a Manuscript
The End!
Lesson 35: THE END!
Bonus lessons
Lesson 33: Hiring a freelance editor
Lesson 16: Figurative Speech: Similes, Cliches and Metaphors
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