Self-editing ... six weeks of it.

Tomorrow I start a six-week online Self-editing your novel course - http://www.writersworkshop.co.uk/Self-Editing.html

It's taken me three years to realise (accept) that I need help.  Not entirely arrogance, although there's a bit of 'shouldn't my book be all my own work?, and I have been aware of each succeeding book that I am improving.
I probably wouldn't have been so enthusiastic either had I not already come across Emma Darwin and her superb and empowering'This Itch of Writing' blog, and done a couple of workshops with Debi Alper at last September's Festival of Writers, run by the folks who organise the courses.
I did, of course, read one novel by each of them - they certainly practice what I hope they'll preach.

Where to start?

An Amazon parcel arrived this morning, courtesy of the voucher received for my birthday, just before Christmas.  Three novels – one of which is Emma Darwin’s ‘A Secret Alchemy’ – and the long-awaited (order back in September) ’Crime Writer’s Guide to Police Procedure’.

I received ’The Elements of Eloquence’ and ‘To the Letter’ plus four novels as gifts from my children, who also lent me thirteen novels.  Accidentally, I’ve already picked up five more charity shop bargains.

Plus there’s the three books of poetry which arrived on Christmas Eve.

The two non-fiction books will sit on my reference shelf, but both need to be read first.

And how do I juggle poetry with fast-pace novels?