Earlier this month, I finished developmental edits on The Dressmaker Book.1 This is the stage where I find myself really ripping the book apart and putting it back together again until it is fairly close to the story that you see when you pick up a book in a bookshop. That means character, plot, and language can all change as part of this process.
The developmental edit is also where I dig into my research and confirm lingering questions that might have come up while I was writing the book. Today, I’m giving you a little look behind the curtain at just a few of the things that I needed to look up and confirm while working on The Dressmaker Book.
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