Train your brain: Red editing pen
TRAIN YOUR BRAIN
Each month, we give you a few sentences which would all benefit from some careful use of your red editing pen. As writers, and regular readers of Writing Magazine, you should not find any of these too difficult. But if you would welcome a little help, you can always check out the suggested solutions below.
Here are this month’s examples:
1 Adrian felt good about the way his book was progressing, but he realised that basically everything would depend what his publisher thought.
2 Sheila sent her manuscript to between ten to a dozen publishers but received some horrendous rejections, several of which almost put her right off of writing.