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| Url: | http://edittorrent.blogspot.com |
| Author(s): | Facebook User |
| Language: | English |
| Tags: | writing, editing, publishing |
| Description: | Two editors agreeing and disagreeing about fiction writing techniques and methods. |
| Ratings |  (5 Ratings) |
| Popularity: | 19 Followers |
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Look what arrived in the mail. This is our first Japanese print book. Took a lot of work to make this cute little backward book. Most of which was done by our publisher and partners in Japan, but I...more |
2009-12-17
Another IT factor -- "As It"
| Here's another way the word it cues weakness in a sentence. You know how writers are sometimes advised to eliminate the word as? Usually, we're talking about problems of simultaneity, but not alway...more |
2009-12-16
Another mark of the amateur
| This is "bling," as Theresa calls it, junky typography:Inappropriate capitalization. You're writing in English, not German. Generally only proper nouns (names, titles) and the first letter of a sen...more |
2009-12-16
Sequence with "like"
| Just came across a minor edit and thought I'd pass it on. Again, it's all about sequence. I'm beginning to think everything is about sequence. Anyway, here's the original sentence or the opening c...more |
2009-12-15
Two Years, Two Editors, Two Ways to Win
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Today marks the second birthday of this little blog. Gosh, what a couple of years it's been. We've met some wonderful people through the comments, laughed a lot, and, we hope, taught you all a new ...more |
2009-12-15
Gettin' Fierce
| I'm guest blogging at Fierce Romance today. Talking about Red Sage's history and future, the state of submissions, and the best stories from Fierce bloggers.Check it out!Theresa |
2009-12-15
When Unnamed Characters Speak
| Jenny asks,Sorry to interrupt a very interesting thread--I swear I read a post here once about handling dialogue when we don't know the names of the speakers. As in someone listening in on a conver...more |
2009-12-14
Who is teaching this stuff?
| Sometimes Theresa and I will consult on some odd prose thingy that has suddenly popped up in nearly every submission we get, and one of us will say, "Who is teaching this stuff?" That's because whe...more |
2009-12-13
Fragments redux
| Coming from comments on the last post:Deb:Fragments make sense in deep POV, but I've read that editors will 'repair' them, killing the voice. Is that still true?Deb, thanks for letting me talk abo...more |
2009-12-13
A Quick Sentence Revision Tip: Subordinate "IT"
| Every now and then, we stumble across a manuscript that overuses a certain type of sentence. As with any sentence structure, the issue is not use so much as overuse.She removed his shirt, pulling i...more |
2009-12-12
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