Working editors move through a manuscript in separate passes: a copy edit for correctness, a line edit for the music, a proofread for whatever survived. The Three Passes teaches you to do the same on your own book, one job at a time. It arrives as five short emails, each with a worked example you can follow error by error and one exercise to run on a chapter of your manuscript. All you need is that chapter, printed, and a pencil. We wrote it for novelists with a finished or nearly finished book who want cleaner prose without handing their voice to anyone. And yes, we make an AI editing tool (it opens in closed beta this summer), but this course teaches the method by hand, asks nothing of you beyond an email address, and works fine if you never look at the tool at all; how we run the company is public at /how-we-work.
Five emails, a few days apart. Unsubscribe anytime; the link is in every one.