To Do List
Exercise
Notes
Day 1 - Set Up Your OneNote Notebook and Create Your Editing Checklist
Structural Review - Fix Plot Holes
Day 2 - Write a Blurb
Day 3 - Character Attributes
Day 4 - Setting Characteristics
Day 5 - Chapter Summary
Day 6 - Timeline
Day 7 - Chapter Conflict
Day 8 - Find Your Flow
Day 9 - Map Your Chapter Summary to a Story Arc
Day 10 - Strategies for Editing from Your Worksheets
Developmental Review  - Crystalize Character, Setting, Scene
Day 11 - Perfect Every Scene With Purpose
Day 12 - Overall Chapter Pacing
Day 13 - Improve Chapter Transitions and Hooks
Day 14 - Building Tension
Day 15 - Character Arc
Day 16 - Setting as a Character
Day 17 - Head Hopping
Day 18 - Analyze Dialog
Day 19 - Eliminate Info Dumps
Day 20 - Show or Tell
Day 21 - First Act
Day 22 - First Chapter
Day 23 - First Sentence, First Paragraph
Day 24 - Eliminate Lagging Middle with Better Breathers
Day 25 - Climactic Ending
Copy-Edit - Grammar, Spelling, and the like
Day 26 - Dialog Tags
Day 27 - Active vs Passive Tense
Day 28 - Crutches and Filter Words
Day 29 - Final Touches
Day 30 - Celebrate, Beta Readers, and Beyond