Rewriting – A checklist for Authors

Rewriting – A checklist for Authors
From Writers Write

1. Have you started with an inciting moment?
2. Have you introduced your main characters in the opening scenes?
3. Have you checked genre requirements?
4. Have you included enough dialogue? (At least 50%)
5. What is your promise to the reader in the beginning? Is it clear?
6. Is there enough conflict?
7. Have you considered your target market?
8. Have you explained something in dialogue and in the narrative?
9. Have you given your protagonist a distinctive voice?
10. Have you done a spell check?
11. Do you have too many long sentences?
12. Have you removed most of your adverbs?
13. Have you reduced your adjectives?
14. Have you removed the imprecise or nonsensical?
15. Have you cut out gratuitous similes and metaphors?
16. Have you cut out gratuitous profanity?
17. Have you reduced the passive voice?
18. Have you taken out your pretentious pieces of writing?
19. Have you taken out author intrusion and inadvertent preaching?
20. Have you used the correct lexicon for the genre?
21. Have you rewritten your novel at least five times?
22. Are there holes in your plot?
23. Is your protagonist believable?
24. Is your antagonist believable?
25. Does your dialogue flow? Read it aloud.
26. Have you used enough contractions?
27. Have you chosen the correct viewpoint for the novel?
28. Have you set your characters in time and place?
29. Have you cut out modifiers and qualifiers?
30. Have you made good on your promise? Is your reader satisfied?

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