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Developmental Editing: Cut and Paste

Bestselling ghostwriter, coauthor, and developmental editor Nancy Peske http://www.nancypeske.com explains how to use a cut and paste technique for organizing very rough drafts of book chapters. Self-help books and business books work best when they're organized well, creating a journey for the reader. Be sure to check out the video How to Write a Self-Help Book: Structuring. Developmental Editing: Cut and Paste Virginia Woolf said that every writer needs a room of her own. To that, I would add that every structural editor or developmental editor needs a dining room of her own or at least a floor of her own—because I've yet to find computer software that works well for the old-fashioned cut-and-paste editorial work. What I've got here is a chapter I'm working on. I have sections of it written. Other parts of it are just notes from conversations with the author that I've glued into approximately the right place. I find that I can work on a section of a chapter with Word on my computer, but when it comes to the whole chapter layout, I really have to do it this way, the old-fashioned way, with scissors and tape, and cutting up the pages. This is my first section of the chapter with all the parts put together. And as I read it through, I started circling things, drawing arrows, moving some stuff around, adding some transition notes, etc. In a few places, I've got a question for the author, or something I'm not sure I'm going to add in yet, or I added it in but it was too difficult to paste in so I'll put in another piece there. In the end, I will actually tape these all together as one long scroll and go back to my computer and piece it together on the computer, moving chunks of type into place, typing in my hand handwritten transitions and handwritten notes to myself. Then I've got a nice clean chapter to work with. The sections that I haven't yet written I will probably write in this process as I'm going through and I come across one. Here's the chapter again from the angle I'm seeing it. Maybe you can see a little more closely how I've lightly taped together pieces because sometimes I'll still move them. I'll always use double spacing so that if I have to cut out a line or paragraph and move it, I can do that easily. I'll also renumber, so for example here I decided that this is the first section and this is the second section so I wrote a little number two up there and I have a number three down here. Some of these are pieces I've actually written and some of these are just notes from the author that I'm going to be rewriting as I go ahead and type material into Word, consulting the paper scroll I've created. For more information on how to write and edit a self-help book, follow Nancy Peske on Facebook or follow my blog at www.nancypeske.com/blog