Editing guidelines to keep in mind.
Experience Optimizations
- Comfort read. Easily flow through the work.
- Reflect on interesting ideas not structure
- Reward rereading. Choose depth over simplicity to enhance the rereading experience.
Word Analysis
- Minimize repeated words (?of what frequency?)
- Can an alternative deepen the meaning?
Sentence analysis
- Each is a brush stroke which, when complete, should provide something to reflect upon.
- No unfinished thoughts
- Each period is earned
- Has the information been established?
- Yes? Is it deepening the understanding?
- Yes? Is it reactivating tension?
- Yes? Is the refresh helpful to the reader? Is it protecting against disorientation?
- Don’t repeat simply from fear of reader forgetfulness. Trust implication where adjacent lines already carry the meaning.
- Emotional shifts: Not sequential, but alchemical
Paragraph analysis
- Identify the hinge: Is it delayed unnecessarily?
- Remember: Sometimes delay is lived thought