Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “Editing”
What do you think of Jessamine here? I don’t often let my heroines have blonde hair. Mostly I want them to have dark hair or auburn hair. It goes back to when I was a kid and everybody was always talking about how cute the blue-eyed, blonde girls were. Me, I wasn’t blonde. Me, I had eyes that couldn’t make …
“I have been correcting the proofs of my poems. In the morning, after hard work, I took a comma out of one sentence…. In the afternoon I put it back again.”– Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Last week I got the pages of my book, Words Spoken True, scheduled for release in February. That’s what’s in the photo along with a list of …
” And that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.” (Gertrude Stein) Words – the tools of a writer’s trade. Words tell your story. Words make your characters leap off the page and come to life. Words plunge those characters …
All right, I admit it. This page is from way back when I used to write on the typewriter. Pre-computer days. The dark ages. But I kept this and used to carry it with me when I did school talks to demonstrate to the kids that editing is vital to making your story readable. I never did the cut and …
On my Facebook author’s page last week I mentioned I would be editing my galleys for my next Shaker book this weekend. Someone asked me what exactly that meant. What did I have to do when I edited a book. So I told her I’d post a blog about editing. Of course we all know about editing our work, our …
Actually the deadline isn’t that much of a worry. I like having deadlines. That means some editor somewhere is wanting to read my story and then suggesting ways I can improve it before readers pick it up. I’m always ready to improve what I write. Of course, I do admit I have times I resist the improvement, but usually if …
Finally got those galleys corrected and off to the editor. I’m hoping I made the story read better. I like to read books that don’t jar the reader away from the story because of awkward wording and so that’s the kind of book I want to write. I even sometimes read my final copy aloud so that my ear can …
Hey everybody. Hope you have all escaped the cold bug, but alas, I did not. Our preacher came down with something the week before Christmas and managed to pass it along to everybody in our church. We have a small congregation (average around 40) so it wasn’t exactly an epidemic, but there’s been a lot of coughing going on while …