Apparently, my hopes, dreams and aspirations were no match against my poor spelling, punctuation and grammar.
Red Red RoverTags: writing dreams spelling ideas aspirations editing publishing grammar rejection punctuation hopes
Self publishing' is not as easy as it is portrayed! When you think you have finished your book, proof read, proof read again, and again, and again. Don't believe it is ready until you have a hard copy proofed!
Phil SimpkinTags: proofreading self-publishing editing
As we change, our writing changes too. You cannot write the same poem twice. And that's a good thing.
Katerina Stoykova KlemerTags: poetry writing change personal-growth editing
Editing is like pruning the rose bush you thought was so perfect and beautiful until it overgrew the garden.
Larry EnrightTags: editing
Being discouraged is natural but giving up is not an option.
Court YoungAuthors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome.
Christopher HitchensTags: editing authorship acknowledgments
When I'm writing, I make words my b*tch. But when I'm editing, the words make me their b*tch. It all equals out in the end.
Richard B. KnightTags: editing writing-life writing-process
Isn't one of the first lessons of good elocution that there's nothing one can say in any rambling, sprawling rant that can't, through some effort, be said shorter and better with a little careful editing? Or that, in writing, there's nothing you can describe in any page-filling paragraph that can't be captured better in just a sentence or two? Perhaps even nothing in any sentence which cannot better be refined in a single, spot-on word? Does it not follow, then, that there's likely nothing one can say in any word - in saying anything at all - that, ultimately, isn't better left unsaid?
(attrib: F.L. Vanderson)
Tags: writing communication language editing
This leads me to the Higher Editing. Take of well-ground Indian Ink as much as suffices and a camel-hair brush proportionate to the inter-spaces of your lines. In an auspicious hour, read your final draft and consider faithfully every paragraph, sentence and word, blacking out where requisite. Let it lie by to drain as long as possible. At the end of that time, re-read and you should find that it will bear a second shortening. Finally, read it aloud alone and at leisure. Maybe a shade more brushwork will then indicate or impose itself. If not, praise Allah and let it go, and ‘when thou hast done, repent not.’ The shorter the tale, the longer the brushwork and, normally, the shorter the lie-by, and vice versa. The longer the tale, the less brush but the longer lie-by. I have had tales by me for three or five years which shortened themselves almost yearly. The magic lies in the Brush and the Ink. For the Pen, when it is writing, can only scratch; and bottled ink is not to compare with the ground Chinese stick. Experto crede.
Rudyard KiplingLet the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you have omitted every word that he can spare.
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