Editing

Knowing When To Stop…

August 12, 2010
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I’ve often been a little bemused watching some of Gary Reef’s videos. He’ll present something that, to my eyes, looks extraordinary. But sometimes you’ll detect a note of unease, a kind of restlessness in him. He isn’t crazy about what he’s produced, but by the same token he often doesn’t seem able to articulate exactly why. This confused me a little… until it started happening to me.

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A Novel Approach To Editing

August 31, 2009

Some word processing packages have facilities to track revisions to your documents. In her book The Writer’s Survival Guide, Rachel Simon offers a slightly less sophisticated technique for making non-destructive revisions to your manuscript.

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