A little sneak peek from the course ✍️ · The Writing & Editing Studio

A little sneak peek from the course ✍️

Hello everyone, and a warm welcome to our new members 💛

I thought I’d share a small idea from the course today.

When we edit our own writing, it’s easy to jump straight to spelling, punctuation, and small corrections. This can mean we spend a lot of time polishing writing that may not have a place in the final piece. Good editing often starts much earlier than that.

Before polishing a sentence, it can help to ask four simple questions:

🔸Is the meaning clear?

🔸Is this in the right place?

🔸Does the tone sound like me?

🔸Is there anything here that the reader does not need?

Only after that do we need to worry about grammar, punctuation, and final proofreading.

So, here’s a gentle writing/editing prompt for today:

Choose one paragraph, post, email, scene, article, or piece of writing you are working on, and ask yourself:

What does this piece really need from me today — clarity, structure, voice, or polish?

You don’t need to share the writing itself unless you want to.

But I’d love to know:

➡️Which of those four areas do you usually struggle with most?