Zenith Novels

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The following pages contain a series of excerpts in need of editing. There will be
MAIN ISSUES that will be the most commonly found mistakes in the section of
excerpts, but they will not be the only mistakes there.
For the sake of efficiency, directly edit into the excerpts, and do not use
suggestion mode or comments.

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EDITING INSTRUCTIONS:
Rules:
PRESENT TENSE: Thoughts, Dialogue
PAST TENSE: Narration
ITALICS: Onomatopoeia, Thoughts
SINGLE QUOTATIONS: Emphasized Words, Quotes within Dialogue

Guidelines:
Refer to LINK for Punctuation Rules in Dialogue
Rewrite phrases/sentences for clarity, consistency, and fluidity.
Restructure the internal structure of the paragraphs to read better in English.
Make sure mood fits the scene, and the tone fits the character.
Check for continuity - things should not change halfway through.
Consistency throughout the novel (terms, names, ranks, etc.)
Convert all units into metric.
Write money, merit/any kind of points, distances, weights and levels/ranks/stars/etc. in numbers
(50,000 gold coins, 2,000 merit points, 100 kilometers, 10 kilograms, level 1 magic beast); normal
stuff in words (six petals, three arms); percentages in numbers, as well (17%); ages will be in words
up to nine, and in numbers from 10 onwards; same with soldiers/army battalions etc. Dates will be
in numeral form (March 3, 2016; December 3rd; Year 2000).
Paragraphs are not to be merged or split unless under extreme circumstances or as proper for
dialogue structure.
Parallelism refers to the repetition of structure in a sentence. Semicolons are only applicable when
parallelism is in use.
Section I
Main Issue: Sentence Structure, Tenses, Capitalization, Rephrasing
It is a curse. to sleep and dream and live with the love of your life, and wake to a living hell. to feel the prick of
needles and burning poison coursing through your body. to suffer and long the darkness, and yearn to be embraced
as if the day was the dream and not the true knight wanderings. The night, where your wildest dreams of freedom
and peace and love and everything you could ever want come alive Where every time you closed your eyes a
lifetime passed And when you die and leave you awake to electricity and shockwaves. It destroys you, to always die
before your soulmate be she in male or he in female form. You'll always die first, and you'll always live a lifetime of
love when you sleep and dream.

Section II
Main Issues: Dialogue, Sentence Structure, Tenses, Consistency, Punctuation

“So because we are engaged for merely 2 weeks, you have to know the intentions behind every action I do? What
the hell are you implying? That I’m untrustworthy?” Elena’s face is flushed an angry red, eyes clouded with rage.
This is just like when Allison wouldn’t let her do anything after a particularly harsh session with their parents. She is
so intense at having no one know in fear of reprisal or the child protection services separating them. It gave both of
them five additional years of torture to suffer under. She won’t let anything like that, the fear of something worse
happening, interfere with her life. Not again.

“No, you’re untrustworthy because I don’t trust you! How the fuck am I supposed to trust you when you not going
to tell me anything beyond the basics of your past?” Tristan shouts back harshly hands clench tightly by his side,
holding himself from resulting to violence. His body trembled form repressed anger, but even then it took all of his
self-control to not lash out against Elena.

“Because you don’t have to know! It’s in the past! It doesn’t matter anymore! What matters to me is that you are
hiding something from me!” Elena’s braid was falling to pieces, strands of her mahogany hair escapes from the
woven braid. It wisped around her face, similar to smoke escaping out of an angered person ears.