Wording Around With Editing: Getting Your First Draft Ready to Publish

Wording Around with Editing gives readers everything they need to get their first draft of any writing project ready to publish.

The first three chapters detail steps of the editing process and introduce the types of editing: Substantive, Stylistic and Copy. The next four chapters get into the nitty gritty of each of those, with an additional chapter on Proofreading. The final three chapters explain the importance of writing communities in helping writers bring their book to its very best form. Every chapter of Wording Around with Editing ends with a resource to help readers dive more deeply into that chapters’ topic, as well as prompts that help authors take their first steps on each stage of the editing process.

＂Kathy Mac is a ’writer’s writer.’ In this tight and mighty work, she cuts to the heart of what she’s learned about process, craft, and loving yourself through the hard parts of writing.＂

- AJ Ripley

During the COVID-19 lockdown in the spring of 2020, poet and creative writing professor Kathy Mac (St. Thomas University, Fredericton, Canada) taught a free online course, the notes for which became Wording Around with Prose, the first in the Wording Around series. Wording Around with Editing: Getting your First Draft Ready to Publish is the second one in the series.