Self-Editing Guides
These video and PDF guides will help you self-edit your projects before seeking professional editing services.
Character Conversations
Learn how to self-edit your writing on the sentence and paragraph levels. Lessons include natural dialogue, dialogue tags, action beats, punctuating dialogue, and numbers in dialogue, along with an example edit.
24.00 USD
You’ll learn how to
- Edit your characters’ dialogue to make it sound natural
- Use dialogue tags wisely
- Edit the action beats in your story so that they work for, not against, your scenes
- Write unique and realistic action beats
You'll get
- Video lessons
- Self-editing checklist
- 10% off a Copyedit (optional)
Reduce & Refresh: Tighten Your Writing
Learn how to self-edit your writing on the sentence and paragraph levels. These lessons and the accompanying example edit will show you how to tighten your writing by reducing the unnecessary and refreshing repetition.
19.00 USD
You’ll learn
- How to declutter your sentences and paragraphs by identifying and removing fillers, filters, redundancy, and wordiness
- When to leave a sentence as is, even with some clutter
- About the various types of repetition you need to watch out for
- How to write unique and realistic action beats
- How to refresh your sentences and paragraphs so that your writing is unique to you and entertaining to your readers
You'll get
- Video lessons
- Self-editing checklist
- 10% off a Copyedit (optional)
A Longer Quick Guide to Screenplay Format
[AVAILABLE BY SEPTEMBER 2025] Learn how to properly format your screenplay. This is a more in-depth guide to my free "A Quick Guide to Screenplay Format." 40-50 pages.
7.00 USD