EDITING POWER HOUR

Edit for impact, not just error
Master structure and meaning

What’s the biggest mistake writers make about editing?

  • They think editing is someone else’s job.
  • They believe editing means obsessively rereading their work with the vague intent of making it better.
  • They convince themselves editing is just about fixing spelling and grammar or chasing commas.

Wrong.

The most important job of editing, is to ensure the words you’ve written convey the meaning you want to communicate.

That your ideas land.

That they’re persuasive.

That they’re interesting.

That they’re impossible to ignore

What could change in your writing if you had a reliable system for making your message clearer and more meaningful? And what would it feel like to approach editing with calm instead of dread?

Let me teach you how to do that. I started my working life as an editor. I learned to edit before I learned to write, and it’s still one of my favourite steps in the writing process.  

Editing isn’t punishment. It’s power.

Join my practical one-hour class, the Editing Power Hour, on Thursday, April 9 at an early-bird price of just $25.  The early-bird price won’t last — and it doubles once registration closes.

I’ll teach you the exact techniques you need to become a calmer, more confident self-editor. 

My methods have helped grad students and other academic writers finally finish their papers with confidence and clarity. They have helped book authors become more masterful in their craft and storytelling. And they’ve helped freelance writers and bloggers save time while captivating more readers.   

You don’t need a special talent to become a good editor. Instead, you need a system that teaches you what to do and when to do it. Editing becomes easier the moment you stop guessing.

The steps are simple. Learn to use them in ways that will make you a better, more successful writer. Use them consistently, and you’ll become a stronger, more successful writer.

This $25 class will teach you five game-changing ways to become a better editor

1

Why you need to take a break before editing — and exactly how long that break should be.

2

How to move quickly and carefully through your draft, tackling it sentence by sentence.

3

The surprising benefits of a retrospective outline (and why doing it AFTER you’ve written makes so much more sense than doing it before)

4

Why a multiple pass system will take far less time than an address-everything-at-once system.

5

When to STOP editing — and why knowing this rule might be the most valuable skill of all.

My practical one-hour class, The Editing Power Hour, will show you how to make editing as easy as talking through your ideas out loud.

This course is a live webinar at 1 pm Pacific on Thursday, April 9. (Can’t attend live? Everyone receives a recording.)

Enrollment closes once we reach capacity — and it usually fills faster than people expect.

Here is what you’ll learn:

  • Why writers should use the same strategy students employ for multiple choice quizzes — and why it works so well for editing.
  • How to make editing significantly less overwhelming.
  • The easiest way to build outlines that reflect what you wrote.
  • Three ways to make editing more rewarding than painful.
  • How to take a meaningful break before editing — even when you have no time!

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Here is a two-minute look at what the course covers:

My 100% turnaround money-back guarantee
If, after watching the course, you feel it didn’t provide $25 of value for you, simply email me within a week of purchase, and I’ll give you your money back, no questions asked.

What clients say about my classes

The power of the first draft

 

Because of the class, I wrote a first draft of an article I’d been putting off (for my company newsletter). Everything you said about getting the first draft done I found to be true. 

Mark W
Toronto, Canada


Informative and accessible

I have been following Daphne for a long time now, and subscribe to her weekly email newsletter. I regularly use her mind map technique when I’m stuck, and have found her advice over the years practical and helpful. I admire tight and succinct writing, and so am a huge admirer! Her recent class on AI was a very interesting, informative and accessible class, with helpful and practical suggestions for how to get the best out of AI.

Annabel Harris
London, U.K.

Clear and practical

Daphne demonstrated how AI could be used to improve our writing. Just as importantly, she warned us about when not to use AI. I loved the clarity of her explanations and the practical examples. I am recommending Daphne’s blog and classes to both my writing groups.

Deborah Martin
Sydney, Australia

Suggestions to improve my writing 

Thanks for this useful presentation. I’ve been using ChatGPT a lot for mundane things — social media posts about events at the museum I’m associated with, job descriptions, “suggest how to freshen up this grant application.”  I’ve used it as a tutor and I’m interested to see what suggestions it makes to improve my writing. 

Laura Colcord
Salisbury, N.H.

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