We’re up the third draft now after reading, collating, and refining the book. Now we go even further into what many would consider minutiae, but it’s still important to me.

We did our first read-through and we’ve gone over the broad strokes. Now, it’s time to get into the fine details.

We’ve done our initial read-through and made our notes, thus completing the Brown Edit. Sounds great, right? Well, hang on a sec. Now, it’s time to get into actually using all the insights from that to make positive changes. That brings us into the Red Edit that makes me stop and look at a lot of big parts of the book-to-come.

Let’s get into the dirty details. The first edit I title the Brown Edit for, yes, the absolute obvious reason. This is the first edit after the First Draft. The First Draft is just me trying to figure the story out. It’s doo doo. It’s brown.

My editing process is long. I look at a lot of different aspects of what lands in the final book. Everything from K.M. Weiland books, articles online, and YouTube videos have informed this list.