editing tips
May 28, 2009
- I tend to be a fairly verbose writer. My husband actually calls me “The Queen of Verbosity.” Yes, I can write a lot in a short amount of time. I admit it.When I’m working on assignment, I often find that I have exceeded my 1, 500-word article requirement, for example, by at least double – if not triple the words. This may happen when I simply have researched so thoroughly that I have too ...
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December 14, 2008
- I’ve been reading through the novel I wrote last year in November and December. When I finished it, I read the whole thing aloud to Angie, night after night for maybe a week. I haven’t been able to bring myself to reread more than the first few pages of it since until this month when I’ve been up against a deadline with some writing cohorts. Now I know why: the first pages aren’t very ...
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June 1, 2008
- After two reviewers knocking off a star for editing, I finally got the message and, for the second time, edited the Amazon Kindle version of War on the Margins. The .html format of Kindl-ese does not take kindly to unorthodox spacing practices (like the double spacing between lines of dialogue that I happen to like) and turns curly, directional quotation marks to weird runes that obscure other ...
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May 2, 2008
- Hello Redroomers,
I've been writing for over twenty years. Writing is the hardest endeavor I've undertaken. Its been a passion since I started my first novel a very long time ago.
My first novel is terrible, but that's the way its supposed to be. I keep telling myself, "Don't be discouraged no matter what. Keep writing. Keep at it."
I have gotten serious about publishing since finding ...
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