The four editing passes

You ask AI to edit your PLR. Four jobs get done badly at once. Run four passes, largest first. Four separate passes turn a rough PLR chapter into edited text, each prompt doing only one editor's job.

The steps

• Pass 1: structure only.
• Pass 2: lines and flow.
• Pass 3: consistency.
• Pass 4: proofread.

Transcript

One edit prompt does four jobs badly. Run four passes instead. The four editing passes. Pass one. Developmental. Structure only: order, gaps, repetition. No sentence gets rewritten. Pass two. Line edit. Clarity, flow and word choice. Keep every fact from the source. Pass three. Copyedit. Grammar, spelling and consistent terms. No rephrasing for style. Pass four. Proofread. Typos, doubled words, broken numbering. Change nothing else. Structure, lines, mechanics, typos. Largest first, and a new chat for every pass. Save this, and send it to someone editing PLR.