In order to get your manuscript to publication standard you’ll have to pay attention to –

Articles, verb forms, pronouns, punctuation, prepositions, subject-verb agreements, infinitives, only one type of English, verb tense, spellings, quantifiers, particles and wordiness.

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Many publisher websites ask for work to be proofread and free of grammatical nasties before submission.

Novel building
 

Fiction facets

Characters – need to be understood, if not liked; motivation

Surprises – taking fiction tropes into new directions, twists, and turns.

Quality writing – voice, tone, humour, grammar

Pace – cliff hangers entice emotions. Tension building, satisfaction

Fiction facets + prose = quality