Whether you’re writing fiction, narrative nonfiction, or memoir; whether this your first story or your fiftieth, Intuitive Editing will give you the tools you need to edit and revise your own writing with inspiration, motivation, and confidence.
Goodreads Review:
The JLM Writing Books Book Club reviewed this book in October 2025. In general, we felt that this book was worth recommending to those writers who were new to the craft and still learning how to self-edit a novel. This book focuses on the developmental editing process, providing a checklist of sorts of the things that you would be looking for as you work through your early-stage rewrites. It's a good reminder that developmental editing starts on a macro level and slowly gets closer and closer to the sentence level.
However, if you are an experienced writer or highly proficient at developmental editing, then this book might not be useful to you. Please keep in mind that the target audience is the newer writer still learning how to self-edit.
After you’ve completed your manuscript and you’re standing at the foot of Revision Mountain, climbing to the summit can feel impossible. It’s hard to look at your own writing with the objective eye needed to shape it into a tight, polished, publishable story—but just like writing, self-editing is a skill you can learn.
Developmental editor Tiffany Yates Martin has spent her career in the publishing industry honing practical, actionable techniques to help authors evaluate how well their story is working, where it might not be, and how to fix it.
With a clear, accessible, user-friendly approach, she leads writers through every step of deepening and elevating their own work, as well as how to approach the edit and develop their “editor brain,” and how to solicit and process feedback. Intuitive Editing doesn’t offer one-size-fits-all advice or rigid writing “rules”; instead it helps authors discover what works for their story and their style—to find the best version of their vision.
Whether you’re writing fiction, narrative nonfiction, or memoir; whether this your first story or your fiftieth, Intuitive Editing will give you the tools you need to edit and revise your own writing with inspiration, motivation, and confidence.