From the course: Sell Your Novel to a Major Publisher
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Copyediting
From the course: Sell Your Novel to a Major Publisher
Copyediting
- [Instructor] We touched upon this briefly before, but the copyediting stage is also when the manuscript officially enters production. Your manuscript is now considered delivered and accepted, and you will receive the next installment of your advance, depending on how your contract is set up. At this stage of the process, you are usually only allowed to make smaller revisions if need be, like changing out a scene for another scene, tweaking dialogue, or inserting extra text to enhance a character or situation. But you're normally discouraged from doing any major reconstructive work that would require moving a lot of things around and rebuilding multiple parts of the story, which is why it's important that you feel comfortable with your revised manuscript before your editor sends it to copyediting. Once your book is sent to copyediting or once it enters the production phase, it will be assigned a copyeditor who will go through the book page by page, line by line and check for…
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