The Trellis Method’s Edit Drafts Workbook
A novel requires careful editing to balance the essential characters, plots, themes, and structure, benefiting from multiple reviews by the author and others before paying for a professional edit and self-publishing.
Satisfy Your Readers’ Expectations!
The 20 page Edit Drafts Workbook and its 12 page checklist prompts your review of copy edits (e.g., misspellings, word misuse, grammar, style, and more), story development edits, plot lens, scene lens, and content lens.
For example:
- Avoid Problems: When writers don’t edit thoroughly before publishing, readers notice, write scathing reviews, and sales suffer.
- Obvious but unresolved errors often occur when writers learn how easy it is to self-publish, and they send their books to retailers before fixing the problems.
- Errors also happen if the writers short change themself by not investing in software that finds and fixes most of these obvious errors.
- Another rookie error is not following a process designed to minimize errors.
- Continuous Effort: To be clear, editing is not a once-and-done process, and that’s why the Trellis Method walks you through several steps, each designed to avoid different errors.
What Writers Are Saying
Overall Story Development
“I like using the Act 1, Act 2a, Act 2b, Act 3 structure and have the very thing that stresses the MC come into play and reveal his or her worst. Hopefully, he or she grows after that! Because of the Trellis Method, I am more organized with my characters in my current WIP than I have been in any other stories.”
— Priscilla
Deep Point of View
“A deep POV makes all the difference for me as a reader. I lose interest quickly if I don’t feel intimately connected to a character. Thanks for the great checklist.”
— Diana
Checklist
“Great tips. That list–I am on the lookout for them [deep POV tips] when I find my story has bogged down. “Author intrusions”–those are insidious! “Revealing information the point-of-view character could not know”–those actually make me angry!”
— Jacqui
Free Overview
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Author’s Bio
Grant P. Ferguson developed his reading superpower as an under-tall kid in grade school. After balancing on tiptoes to pluck a science fiction novel from the library’s top shelf, it was love at first reading. Like a nerd turned super hero, books transformed his ordinary life into an extraordinary genre mashup of thriller, romance, and faith. He studied writing, and like a mad (but not evil) scientist, turned his research into the Trellis Method. From their ‘Fortress of Solitude’ in Central Texas, Grant and wife share their love of writing.