Edit Your Own Writing Without Losing Your Voice

You have finished a draft and you are afraid editing will either miss everything or polish away the bit that was yours. This designs a self-edit pass aimed at your known weaknesses, with a clear line between fixing a fault and erasing a quirk. It suits writers who do not yet trust their own red pen. You get a method and a sense of what good looks like.

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You have a completed draft of {DRAFT_DESCRIPTION} and are preparing to self-edit. Your main weaknesses as a writer are [describe: e.g. over-writing / under-writing / passive voice / telling not showing / all of the above]. Your worry about editing is [e.g. that you will sand away everything distinctive / that you will miss too much / that you don't know what 'good' looks like].
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**Design a multi-pass self-editing process** that improves the work without homogenising it:
1. Pass 1, Structural: is the shape right? Does each scene/section earn its place?
2. Pass 2, Scene-level: does every scene have an entrance, an exit, and a change in status?
3. Pass 3, Line-level: cut the hedges, kill weak verbs, eliminate throat-clearing
4. Pass 4, Voice: read aloud and listen for where the voice goes flat or inconsistent
5. Pass 5, Final check: read as a cold reader who has never seen this work

For each pass, give a specific question to ask and a concrete action to take.
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- Five-pass editing guide (table: Pass | Question to ask | Concrete action | What to look for)
- Three phrases or constructions specific to your stated weaknesses to search-and-review
- One test to determine if your voice is intact after editing
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