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Modern Mentor

399 GID How to Write Better by Editing Your Own Work

Modern Mentor

Macmillan Holdings, LLC

Careers, Business, Management

4.3720 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2016

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Here are three great ways to edit your own writing—quickly and successfully. Read the full transcript here: http://bit.ly/1psXVOt

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0:00.0

This is Steveer Robbins.

0:04.0

Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

0:09.0

When you do your own writing, editing your own work is a fact of life.

0:13.0

But it's hard to keep perspective when you're editing your own work.

0:15.0

You get caught in your head, you pound the walls trying to get out,

0:18.0

and eventually you have to bribe the guards to feed you some gruel.

0:22.0

It isn't pretty.

0:24.5

But you still want your writing to be amazing.

0:29.1

Eventually, you get to that point where you look over the page again and again without even reading the words.

0:35.0

When we're in our heads, we can't edit objectively even though the writing has to turn out right anyway.

0:39.0

So to make the writing right, use outside resources to help you get a third-person perspective on your writing. Bernice learned this the hard way. She was writing the

0:43.8

latest ad copy for her green growing things plant store. She had great ideas for the copy,

0:49.1

but they were a mess. Her notes and her writing snippets kept getting mixed up in her editor

0:52.9

window. She had notes at the top of her screen, the notes to the left, they had notes to the right.

0:57.1

Her brain was about to explode.

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Fortunately, computers let you open two windows at once, and monitors are big enough that you can do it easily

1:06.2

so you can edit consecutive drafts on two desktop windows side by side.

1:11.6

When you're preparing to write, open two windows.

1:14.6

Write your outline in the left-hand window along with text snippets or paragraphs that you want

1:18.6

to make sure to include.

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Then, start composing detailed, awesome, amazing, Pulitzer prize-winning pros in the right-hand

1:25.6

window by copying and pasting the ideas that you want to include over from the left.

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