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3 Free Editing Tools Every Freelance Writer Must Try
Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings. — Stephen King
Writing is half-baked without editing. Editing completes a write-up by removing fluff, fixing typos and grammatical mistakes, thereby brings more clarity. It adds more value to the reader, saving them time and effort to understand and follow.
The first draft is called a shitty draft for a reason. It is necessary to get it out on paper. They are precious. We write the first draft in the sense of flow as the stream of ideas bursts out all of a sudden or when you think of an experience. But they are not ready for the world. Not yet. Not until we’ve distilled the essence of our ideas in concise brevity.
I underestimated editing tools in the initial months of being a freelance writer. I didn’t even know they existed for the first few months. I never doubted my English, for that matter. I was that kid who my parents knew would be curled up reading in a corner at any time. And that kid who scored the highest in English by default in all her school years.
But, how wrong was I. I had overlooked the fact that the eye can’t always see minor mistakes when we keep…
