content editing | content editing
Aug.15.2011
Editing professionals is often difficult. Few writers thank you for bloodying their pages. Editing amateurs is usually much worse. Case in point: editing my sister's story for anthology submission.
Professionals, and most advanced amateurs, realize that what they write isn't perfect and it often...
|
Sep.07.2010
I have been watching this compelling show on television called Hoarders. Yesterdaywas a 12 hour marathon that started in the morning and went late into the night. (Most likely the reason I am tired today) It is just unbelievable how these people live. Fact is stranger than fiction. You just...
|
May.22.2010
In order to create movement, spacing and leverage in your story, article, manuscript, novel and etc, to be sharp, edgy, spellbinding, intelligent, tantalizing and tempestuous, you must edit and purge dead words and passive connections. Search for dead adverbs and adjectives, the ones that end with...
|
Dec.19.2009
I spend a lot of my time working as a freelance nonfiction editor. Although I do work with many writers who have had their work edited by professional editors before, I probably work with more writers who have never encountered the editing process with anyone other than a writing buddy, someone in...
|