Intuitive Editing With Tiffany Yates Martin

How can you create distance from your manuscript in order to see it as a reader does and edit effectively? What are some of the biggest issues with editing a manuscript? How can you edit on a budget? Tiffany Yates Martin talks all about editing in this interview.

In the intro, 10 years of the Alliance of Independent Authors [ALLi]; Re-calibrating [Seth Godin]; NFTs for Authors, episode 610.

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Tiffany Yates Martin is an editor, speaker, and teacher with almost 30 years in the publishing industry. She writes contemporary women's fiction as Phoebe Fox, and her latest non-fiction book is Intuitive Editing: A Creative and Practical Guide to Revising Your Writing.

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Show Notes

* * The three ‘brains’ we need: writer, reader, editor* Tips for creating distance from your manuscript so that you can see it the way a reader does* The importance of writing characters that readers care about — and making their stakes clear* Momentum vs. pace* Finding your author voice* Editing support on a budget

You can find Tiffany Yates Martin at FoxPrintEditorial.com and on Twitter @FoxPrintEd

Transcript of Interview with Tiffany Yates Martin

Joanna: Tiffany Yates Martin is an editor, speaker, and teacher with almost 30 years in the publishing industry. She writes contemporary women's fiction as Phoebe Fox, and her latest non-fiction book is Intuitive Editing: A Creative and Practical Guide to Revising Your Writing. Welcome, Tiffany.

Tiffany: Thank you, Joanna. Thanks for inviting me onto the show.

Joanna: Ah, it's good to talk about this topic.

Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing and editing.

Tiffany: The writing I'd always done. Like most of us, I started from the time I was very young. My mom recently gave me back a copy of a book I must have written in elementary school, called, embarrassingly enough, My Autobiography About Me: I Wrote It Myself.

Joanna: Brilliant.

Tiffany: It's full of gems, like ‘my brother is annoying,' that kind of thing.